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Robotics: A Rehabilitation Modality

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A novel rehabilitation technique must demonstrate certain attributes, namely demonstrate GAINS at the end of intervention, PERSIST beyond treatment, show evidence of GENERALIZATION, reduce COST, or demonstrate cost/benefit advantages. Upper extremity robotics is a novel post-stroke rehabilitative modality as it has already demonstrated these attributes. Lower extremity robotics has yet to demonstrate the same attributes. We are highly optimistic that with careful research basic on solid neuroscience principles, we can improve outcomes for lower extremity robotics as a rehabilitative modality.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Hermano Igo Krebs

  2. Department Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Hermano Igo Krebs

  3. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine I, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Japan

    Hermano Igo Krebs

  4. Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Hermano Igo Krebs

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

    Hermano Igo Krebs

  6. Center for Biomedical Science, Feinstein Institute, Manhasset, NY, USA

    Bruce T. Volpe

  7. Department of Molecular Medicine, Hofstra North Shore LIJ Medical School, Manhasset, NY, USA

    Bruce T. Volpe

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Krebs, H.I., Volpe, B.T. Robotics: A Rehabilitation Modality. Curr Phys Med Rehabil Rep 3, 243–247 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40141-015-0101-6

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