Robotic Motor Rehabilitation for Brain Injured Patients: State of the Art on Its Efficacy and Neural Underpinnings
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neural Engineering, Neuroergonomics and Neurorobotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 April 2021) | Viewed by 6278
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Learning; Neuroimaging; Neurorehabilitation; Motor Cognition; Virtual Reality
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Motor deficits – most notably, paresis – is a frequent result of brain injury. Robot-assisted therapy has been gaining acceptance as a treatment to improve limb functionality in stroke survivors, but it has also been used for cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological syndromes (Duret et al, 2019).
While there is evidence that robot-assisted therapy can improve arm function and muscle strength after a stroke (Merholz et al, 2018), less evidence has been collected regarding lower limb rehabilitation (Weber and Stein, 2018). Moreover, the neural mechanisms underlying clinical and functional improvements are not always investigated.
This Special Issue is therefore dedicated to experimental studies that use robot-assisted interventions to treat upper or lower limb paresis after brain damage. Given the lack of data on walking rehabilitation, papers presenting results on the efficacy of exoskeletons or lower limb devices will be prioritized.
Studies comprising both clinical and neuroimaging or neurophysiological evaluations are particularly welcome, but works using lesion symptom mapping will also be considered of interest when shedding light on the impact of cerebral lesion load on the response to robotic-assisted rehabilitation. Finally, reviews devoted to issues of particular relevance for this topic will be evaluated.
References
- Mehrholz, J.; Pohl, M.; Platz, T.; Kugler, J.; Elsner, B. Electromechanical and robot-assisted arm training for improving activities of daily living, arm function, and arm muscle strength after stroke. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015. Update in Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2018.
- Duret, C., Grosmaire, A.G., Krebs, H.I. Robot-Assisted Therapy in Upper Extremity Hemiparesis: Overview of an Evidence-Based Approach. Frontiers in Neurology, 2019, 10, 412.
- Weber, L.M.; Stein, J. The use of robots in stroke rehabilitation: A narrative review. NeuroRehabilitation, 2018, 43(1), 99-110.
Prof. Dr. Katiuscia Sacco
Dr. Alessandro Cicerale
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Motor rehabilitation
- Robot-assisted therapy
- Limb paresis
- Neurorehabilitation
- Neuroimaging
- Stroke
- Stroke Rehabilitation
- Brain-computer Interface
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