TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of the harmony exoskeleton as an upper extremity rehabilitation tool after stroke
AU - Ogden, Evan M.
AU - Chiu, David
AU - Clearman, Rebecca
AU - Card, Cynthia
AU - Deshpande, Ashish D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Science Foundation, Walter Oil and Gas Corporation, a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship, and Mission Connect/TIRR Foundation. E. M. Ogden and A. D. Deshpande are with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA (emogden@utexas.edu, ashish@austin.utexas.edu). D. Chiu is with the Eddy Scurlock Stroke Center at Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston Texas, USA. R. Clearman is with Houston Methodist Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, Texas, USA. C. Card is with Personal Physician Group, Houston, Texas, USA.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2018/6/12
Y1 - 2018/6/12
N2 - We carried out an exploratory study to evaluate the safety of the Harmony upper body exoskeleton during stroke rehabilitation in a clinical setting. This robot contains a novel arrangement of active degrees of freedom about the shoulder complex that should be evaluated for safe interaction before assessing clinical efficacy. This study was performed with a fifty-eight year old male and began twenty-seven months after ischemic stroke. The subject's shoulder girdle motion, glenohumeral subluxation, and muscle status were monitored over twenty-two sessions. Glenohumeral subluxation was successfully avoided throughout arm motion, and palpated scapular motion was deemed satisfactory. Active range of motion and effort duration measurements showed slight changes between early and late sessions, but no significant improvement in daily function was anticipated. Nevertheless the Harmony exoskeleton was capable of maintaining glenohumeral joint closure and proper coordination of shoulder girdle motion during several multi-joint movements in a chronic stroke subject.
AB - We carried out an exploratory study to evaluate the safety of the Harmony upper body exoskeleton during stroke rehabilitation in a clinical setting. This robot contains a novel arrangement of active degrees of freedom about the shoulder complex that should be evaluated for safe interaction before assessing clinical efficacy. This study was performed with a fifty-eight year old male and began twenty-seven months after ischemic stroke. The subject's shoulder girdle motion, glenohumeral subluxation, and muscle status were monitored over twenty-two sessions. Glenohumeral subluxation was successfully avoided throughout arm motion, and palpated scapular motion was deemed satisfactory. Active range of motion and effort duration measurements showed slight changes between early and late sessions, but no significant improvement in daily function was anticipated. Nevertheless the Harmony exoskeleton was capable of maintaining glenohumeral joint closure and proper coordination of shoulder girdle motion during several multi-joint movements in a chronic stroke subject.
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U2 - 10.1109/WEROB.2017.8383834
DO - 10.1109/WEROB.2017.8383834
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049935574
T3 - 2017 International Symposium on Wearable Robotics and Rehabilitation, WeRob 2017
SP - 1
EP - 2
BT - 2017 International Symposium on Wearable Robotics and Rehabilitation, WeRob 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 International Symposium on Wearable Robotics and Rehabilitation, WeRob 2017
Y2 - 5 November 2017 through 8 November 2017
ER -