Trial reportJournal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation2010
Patient-cooperative control increases active participation of individuals with SCI during robot-aided gait training.
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- Post-stroke lower limb rehabilitation: a comparative study between exoskeleton robots and traditional gait training.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Walking speed is not the best outcome to evaluate the effect of robotic assisted gait training in people with motor incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review with meta-analysis.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Appropriate Robotic Intervention for Gait Function in Subacute Stroke Patients.BioMed research international · 2018Pooled it
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- Walking rehabilitation in incomplete spinal cord injury: evaluating the impact of robotic exoskeleton-assisted training.Biomedical engineering online · 2026Trial
- Variants of active assist robotic therapy: feasibility of virtual assistance and proprioceptive training as gauged by their effects on success and motivation during finger movement training after stroke.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Trial
- Exoskeleton-based training improves walking independence in incomplete spinal cord injury patients: results from a randomized controlled trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2023Trial
- Intensity control of robot-assisted gait training based on biometric data: Preliminary study.Medicine · 2022Trial
- Abnormal synergistic gait mitigation in acute stroke using an innovative ankle-knee-hip interlimb humanoid robot: a preliminary randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Effect of combined home-based, overground robotic-assisted gait training and usual physiotherapy on clinical functional outcomes in people with chronic stroke: A randomized controlled trial.Clinical rehabilitation · 2021Trial
- Effect of assist-as-needed robotic gait training on the gait pattern post stroke: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2021Trial
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- Influences of the biofeedback content on robotic post-stroke gait rehabilitation: electromyographic vs joint torque biofeedback.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2019Trial
- Robotic Assistance for Training Finger Movement Using a Hebbian Model: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2017Trial
- Can Lokomat therapy with children and adolescents be improved? An adaptive clinical pilot trial comparing Guidance force, Path control, and FreeD.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2017Trial
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing early after stroke using feedback-controlled robotics-assisted treadmill exercise: test-retest reliability and repeatability.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2014Trial
- The effect of impedance-controlled robotic gait training on walking ability and quality in individuals with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury: an explorative study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2014Trial
- Feasibility and effects of patient-cooperative robot-aided gait training applied in a 4-week pilot trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2012Trial
- Multimodal engagement estimation in paediatric robot-assisted gait training: integrating physiological sensing and biomechanical interaction.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Sex Differences in Elderly Multiple Sclerosis Patients Undergoing Neurorehabilitation: How Many Things are Taken for Granted? A Retrospective Study.Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundManual body weight supported treadmill training and robot-aided treadmill training are frequently used techniques for the gait rehabilitation of individuals after stroke and spinal cord injury. Current evidence suggests that robot-aided gait training may be improved by making robotic behavior more patient-cooperative. In this study, we have investigated the immediate effects of patient-cooperative versus non-cooperative robot-aided gait training on individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI).
methodsEleven patients with iSCI participated in a single training session with the gait rehabilitation robot Lokomat. The patients were exposed to four different training modes in random order: During both non-cooperative position control and compliant impedance control, fixed timing of movements was provided. During two variants of the patient-cooperative path control approach, free timing of movements was enabled and the robot provided only spatial guidance. The two variants of the path control approach differed in the amount of additional support, which was either individually adjusted or exaggerated. Joint angles and torques of the robot as well as muscle activity and heart rate of the patients were recorded. Kinematic variability, interaction torques, heart rate and muscle activity were compared between the different conditions.
resultsPatients showed more spatial and temporal kinematic variability, reduced interaction torques, a higher increase of heart rate and more muscle activity in the patient-cooperative path control mode with individually adjusted support than in the non-cooperative position control mode. In the compliant impedance control mode, spatial kinematic variability was increased and interaction torques were reduced, but temporal kinematic variability, heart rate and muscle activity were not significantly higher than in the position control mode.
conclusionsPatient-cooperative robot-aided gait training with free timing of movements made individuals with iSCI participate more actively and with larger kinematic variability than non-cooperative, position-controlled robot-aided gait training.
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