A comparison of functional and impairment-based robotic training in severe to moderate chronic stroke: A pilot study

Issue title: Emerging Approaches in Rehabilitation after Brain Injury

Guest editors: Lumy Sawaki

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Krebs, Hermano Igo^{a; b; c; *} | Mernoff, Stephen^{d; e} | Fasoli, Susan E.^{f; g} | Hughes, Richard^f | Stein, Joel^{f; g} | Hogan, Neville^{a; h}

Affiliations: [a] Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA | [b] Department of Neuroscience, The Burke Medical Research Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA | [c] Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA | [d] Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island, RI, USA | [e] Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, USA | [f] Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA, USA | [g] Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA | [h] Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA | Wake Forest University, Department of Neurology, Program in Rehabilitation, Winston Salem, NC, USA

Correspondence: [*] Address for correspondence: Hermano Igo Krebs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 3-137, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Tel.: +1 617 253 8112; Fax: +1 617 258 7018; E-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: Stroke, rehabilitation, robotics, task specific training

DOI: 10.3233/NRE-2008-23108

Journal: NeuroRehabilitation, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 81-87, 2008