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Forging Mens et Manus: The MIT Experience in Upper Extremity Robotic Therapy

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MIT’s motto is Mens et Manus, which translates into “Mind and Hand.” It could not be a more appropriate motto for our line of research: using robotics and information technology to forge new or reinforce existing pathways to reconnect the brain to the hand. These reconnections allow an adult who has experienced a stroke or a child with cerebral palsy to improve the quality of their life. This chapter describes our efforts toward this goal since the initial development of the MIT-Manus in 1989. Since then, over 800 stroke patients have enrolled in our multiple studies and we have developed a complete robotic gym for the upper extremity. With the most recent endorsement of the American Heart Association and the Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense for incorporating robot-assisted therapy into stroke rehabilitation for upper extremity, we have begun realizing our motto toward tailoring therapy to a particular need.

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Acknowledgment

Portions of this chapter were excerpted from previously published work. This work was supported in part by NIH grant #1 R01-HD045343, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veteran’s Health Administration, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Merit Review Grant #B6935R. H. I. Krebs and N. Hogan are co-inventors in several MIT-held patents for the robotic technology. They hold equity positions in Interactive Motion Technologies, Watertown, MA, USA, the company that manufactures this type of technology under license to MIT.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering Department, MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Office 3-137, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Hermano Igo Krebs

  2. Department of Research and Development, VA Maryland Health Care System, 10 N. Greene St., #151, 21201-1524, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Susan S. Conroy

  3. Department of Research and Development, VA Maryland Health Care System, 10 N. Greene St., 21201, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Christopher T. Bever

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Room 3-146, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Neville Hogan

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Krebs, H.I., Conroy, S.S., Bever, C.T., Hogan, N. (2012). Forging Mens et Manus: The MIT Experience in Upper Extremity Robotic Therapy. In: Dietz, V., Nef, T., Rymer, W. (eds) Neurorehabilitation Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2277-7_8

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