Nordin, N, Xie, SQ orcid.org/0000-0003-2641-2620 and Wünsche, B (2014) Assessment of movement quality in robot- assisted upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: a review. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 11 (1). 137. p. 137. ISSN 1743-0003
Abstract
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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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 Nordin et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
Keywords: | Robot kinematics, Motion analysis, Rehabilitation robotics, Stroke |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering (Leeds) > Robotics, Autonomous Systems & Sensing (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2021 12:47 |
Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2021 13:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | BioMed Central (BMC) |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/1743-0003-11-137 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:163966 |