Research Article
A new quantitative performance parameter for monitoring robotics rehabilitation treatment
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255351, author={Elisabetta Peri and Emilia Biffi and Cristina Maghini and Fernanda Servodio Iammarrone and Chiara Gagliardi and Chiara Germiniasi and Alessandra Pedrocchi and Anna Carla Turconi and Gianluigi Reni}, title={A new quantitative performance parameter for monitoring robotics rehabilitation treatment}, proceedings={REHAB 2014}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={REHAB}, year={2014}, month={7}, keywords={robotics rehabilitation upper limb armeo spring pediatric cerebral palsy}, doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255351} }- Elisabetta Peri
Emilia Biffi
Cristina Maghini
Fernanda Servodio Iammarrone
Chiara Gagliardi
Chiara Germiniasi
Alessandra Pedrocchi
Anna Carla Turconi
Gianluigi Reni
Year: 2014
A new quantitative performance parameter for monitoring robotics rehabilitation treatment
REHAB
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255351
Abstract
In clinical practice, the great potential of robots in extracting quantitative and meaningful data is not always exploited. The aim of the present paper is to propose a simple parameter that allows to follow the performance of subjects during upper limb robotic training with no additional effort for patients or clinicians. Armeo®Spring has been used to perform a training on 14 children affected by cerebral palsy (CP). Each session was evaluated with the new parameter allowing us to observe variations in subjects’ performance over time. A preliminary validation of the parameter was performed by means of Melbourne clinical scale. Further studies are required to compare the results with kinematics data and other clinical scales.