Robotic Therapy: The Tipping Point
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Krebs, Hermano Igo
Hogan, Neville
Krebs, Hermano Igo
Date Issued
November 2012
Journal
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Krebs, H. I., and N. Hogan. “Robotic Therapy: The Tipping Point.” American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 91 (2012): S290–S297.
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Abstract
The last two decades have seen a remarkable shift in the neurorehabilitation paradigm. Neuroscientists and clinicians moved away from the perception that the brain is static and hardwired to a new dynamic understanding that plasticity is a fundamental property of the adult human brain and might be harnessed to remap or create new neural pathways. Capitalizing on this innovative understanding, the authors introduced a paradigm shift in the clinical practice in 1989 when they initiated the development of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Manus robot for neurorehabilitation and deployed it in the clinic in 1994 (Krebs et al. 1998). Since then, the authors and others have developed and tested a multitude of robotic devices for stroke, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson disease. Here, the authors discuss whether robotic therapy has achieved a level of maturity to justify its broad adoption in the clinical realm as a tool for motor recovery.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1097/PHM.0b013e31826bcd80
