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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2018

Robotic Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Injury: a Narrative Review.

Marwa Mekki, Andrew D Delgado, Adam Fry, David Putrino, Vincent Huang

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07030322 (Health and Financial Impact on the Use of a Personal Exoskeleton in the Home and Community), which is not on this map. Cited by 81 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07030322 enrolling by invitationnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Health and Financial Impact on the Use of a Personal Exoskeleton in the Home and Community: a Case Study

TypeobservationalSponsorEkso BionicsRan2025 to 2027Enrolled5ConditionsSpinal Cord InjuryArmsOverground Robotic Exoskeleton
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

81 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 211 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marwa MekkiDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Andrew D DelgadoDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Adam FryDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
David PutrinoDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Vincent HuangDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. vincent.huang@mountsinai.org.ORCID 0000-0002-7686-2980
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mobility after spinal cord injury (SCI) is among the top goals of recovery and improvement in quality of life. Those with tetraplegia rank hand function as the most important area of recovery in their lives, and those with paraplegia, walking. Without hand function, emphasis in rehabilitation is placed on accessing one's environment through technology. However, there is still much reliance on caretakers for many activities of daily living. For those with paraplegia, if incomplete, orthoses exist to augment walking function, but they require a significant amount of baseline strength and significant energy expenditure to use. Options for those with motor complete paraplegia have traditionally been limited to the wheelchair. While wheelchairs provide a modified level of independence, wheelchair users continue to face difficulties in access and mobility. In the past decade, research in SCI rehabilitation has expanded to include external motorized or robotic devices that initiate or augment movement. These robotic devices are used with 2 goals: to enhance recovery through repetitive, functional movement and increased neural plasticity and to act as a mobility aid beyond orthoses and wheelchairs. In addition, lower extremity exoskeletons have been shown to provide benefits to the secondary medical conditions after SCI such as pain, spasticity, decreased bone density, and neurogenic bowel. In this review, we discuss advances in robot-guided rehabilitation after SCI for the upper and lower extremities, as well as potential adjuncts to robotics.

Indexed as

HumansRoboticsSpinal Cord InjuriesexoskeletonneurorehabilitationparaplegiaRoboticsspinal cord injurytetraplegia.

Identifiers

PMID29987763
PMCPMC6095795
OpenAlexW2864113268

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