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Every year, stroke leaves many disabled people who need rehabilitation to recover lost movements and return to a normal live. Exoskeletons are becoming a very powerful tool to help clinicians improve this rehabilitation process. This paper presents a robotic platform aimed to assist overground gait training for disabled people. It’s a six degree of freedom device and has been designed for different control strategies. A first trial with a healthy subject showed that it can replicate a normal gait pattern for walk assistance. Further investigation will evaluate the device with stroke patients in rehabilitation and make a comparison between different robotic therapies.
This work has been developed thanks to HYPER project (Hybrid Neuroprosthetic and Neurorobotic Devices for Functional Compensation and Rehabilitation of Motor Disorders). Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación, Spain. (CSD2009 - 00067 CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010).
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Bortole, M., Pons, J.L. (2013). Development of a Exoskeleton for Lower Limb Rehabilitation. In: Pons, J., Torricelli, D., Pajaro, M. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34546-3_14
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