Robot-Based Evaluation Toolbox for Stroke Patients

基于机器人的中风患者评估工具箱

• 批准号: 6443068
• 负责人: STEPHANIE K FORD
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: INTERACTIVE MOTION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-15 至 2003-06-15
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6443068
• 关键词: aging; assistive device /technology; bioengineering /biomedical engineering; biomechanics; biomedical equipment; computer assisted patient care; computer human interaction; computer program /software; computer system hardware; cost effectiveness; diagnosis design /evaluation; elbow; functional ability; limb movement; measurement; medical rehabilitation related tag; nervous system disorder diagnosis; quality of life; rehabilitation; robotics; shoulder; stroke therapy

Interactive Motion Technologies, Inc., the exclusive licensee of MIT- MANUS robot technology, has successfully redesigned MIT's alpha- prototype into a commercially-viable "robot therapist," called the InMotion2 Shoulder-Elbow Robot. A number of universities and hospitals in the U.S. and Canada have purchased the InMotion2 robot, both for research purposes and to provide stroke patients with robot- aided neuro-rehabilitation. Clinical research based on MIT-MANUS indicate that stroke patients undergoing such therapy improved further and faster than a control group. Robot-aids may also provide clinicians with time and cost savings if programmed both to assist with therapy, and to generate practical data outputs. While robots possess the native ability to record kinematic and force data generated by neurologically-impaired patients, an ongoing challenge is to extract meaningful data from such measurements, facilitating a more efficient rehabilitation process. We therefore propose to develop objective and quantitative robotic measures designed to (1) evaluate patients' performance with a robotic device, and (2) integrate the robot- based evaluation protocol into a semi-automated patient assessment procedure. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: - Hardware: Robot-aided rehabilitation products for different limb segments, i.e., arms, wrist, fingers, legs, spatial for group therapy. - Software: (1) Instructional software ("video games") for different exercise therapy routines tailored to different patient needs; (2) Evaluation package to monitor the amount and quality of therapy delivered to the patient, as well as to quantify patient's performance.

Interactive Motion Technologies, Inc. 是 MIT-MANUS 机器人技术的独家授权商，已成功将 MIT-MANUS 机器人技术的 alpha 原型重新设计成具有商业可行性的“机器人治疗师”，名为 InMotion2 肩肘机器人。美国和加拿大的许多大学和医院都购买了 InMotion2 机器人，既用于研究目的，也为中风患者提供机器人辅助的神经康复。基于 MIT-MANUS 的临床研究表明，接受这种治疗的中风患者比对照组改善得更快更快。如果对机器人辅助设备进行编程以协助治疗并生成实用的数据输出，那么机器人辅助设备还可以为临床医生节省时间和成本。虽然机器人具有记录神经受损患者产生的运动学和力数据的固有能力，但持续的挑战是从此类测量中提取有意义的数据，从而促进更有效的康复过程。因此，我们建议开发客观和定量的机器人测量方法，旨在（1）使用机器人设备评估患者的表现，以及（2）将基于机器人的评估协议集成到半自动患者评估程序中。拟议的商业应用： - 硬件：适用于不同肢体部位的机器人辅助康复产品，即手臂、手腕、手指、腿部、团体治疗空间。 - 软件：(1) 针对不同患者需求定制不同运动治疗程序的教学软件（“视频游戏”）； (2) 评估包，用于监测向患者提供的治疗的数量和质量，以及量化患者的表现。