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This work presents the preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial aimed at evaluating the efficacy of a novel hybrid robotic system for arm rehabilitation after stroke. The system was developed within the European project RETRAINER and consists of a passive exoskeleton for weight relief combined with an arm EMG-triggered neuroprosthesis. Up to now, 39 patients completed the 9-week intervention: patients in the experimental group achieved a significantly better effect in the motoric outcome measures with respect to control subjects receiving only conventional therapy. These promising results need to be confirmed on a larger sample.
This work was supported by the RETRAINER project (H2020 Research and Innovation Program, grant agreement No 644721).
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Immick, N. et al. (2019). Hybrid Robotic System for Arm Training After Stroke: Preliminary Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial. In: Masia, L., Micera, S., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III. ICNR 2018. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_18
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