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- Title
Feasibility of combining gait robot and multichannel functional electrical stimulation with intramuscular electrodes.
- Authors
McCabe, Jessica P.; Dohring, Mark E.; Marsolais, E. Byron; Rogers, Jean; Burdsall, Richard; Roenigk, Kristen; Pundik, Svetlana; Daly, Janis J.
- Abstract
After stroke rehabilitation, many survivors of stroke exhibit persistent gait deficits. In previous work, we demonstrated significant gains in gait kinematics for survivors of chronic stroke using multichannel functional electrical stimulation with intramuscular electrodes (FES-IM). For this study, we tested the feasibility of combining FES-IM and gait robot technologies for treating persistent gait deficits after stroke. Six subjects, >/= 6 months after stroke, received 30-minute intervention sessions of combined FES-IM and gait robotics 4 days a week for 12 weeks. Feasibility was assessed according to three factors: (1) performance of the interface of the two technologies during intervention sessions, (2) clinicians' success in using two technologies simultaneously, and (3) subject satisfaction. FES-IM system hardware and software design features combined with the gait robot technology proved feasible to use. Each technology alone provided unique advantages and disadvantages of gait practice characteristics. Because of the unique advantages and disadvantages of each technology, gait deficits need to be accurately identified and a judicious treatment plan properly targeted before FES-IM, a gait robot, or both combined are selected.
- Subjects
GAIT disorder treatment; ELECTRIC stimulation; MEDICAL robotics; CEREBROVASCULAR disease patient rehabilitation; MOTOR learning; TECHNOLOGY &; society
- Publication
Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development, 2008, Vol 45, Issue 7, p997
- ISSN
0748-7711
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1682/JRRD.2007.08.0124