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Published in: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 1/2014

Open Access 01-12-2014 | Review

Assessment of movement quality in robot- assisted upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: a review

Authors: Nurdiana Nordin, Sheng Quan Xie, Burkhard Wünsche

Published in: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation | Issue 1/2014

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Studies of stroke patients undergoing robot-assisted rehabilitation have revealed various kinematic parameters describing movement quality of the upper limb. However, due to the different level of stroke impairment and different assessment criteria and interventions, the evaluation of the effectiveness of rehabilitation program is undermined. This paper presents a systematic review of kinematic assessments of movement quality of the upper limb and identifies the suitable parameters describing impairments in stroke patients. A total of 41 different clinical and pilot studies on different phases of stroke recovery utilizing kinematic parameters are evaluated. Kinematic parameters describing movement accuracy are mostly reported for chronic patients with statistically significant outcomes and correlate strongly with clinical assessments. Meanwhile, parameters describing feed-forward sensorimotor control are the most frequently reported in studies on sub-acute patients with significant outcomes albeit without correlation to any clinical assessments. However, lack of measures in coordinated movement and proximal component of upper limb enunciate the difficulties to distinguish the exploitation of joint redundancies exhibited by stroke patients in completing the movement. A further study on overall measures of coordinated movement is recommended.
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Metadata
Title
Assessment of movement quality in robot- assisted upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: a review
Authors
Nurdiana Nordin
Sheng Quan Xie
Burkhard Wünsche
Publication date
01-12-2014
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation / Issue 1/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1743-0003
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-11-137

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