title: Robot-aided intensive training in post-stroke recovery.
abstract: The successful motor rehabilitation of stroke patients requires an intensive and task-specific therapy approach. The plasticity of the adult human brain provides opportunities to enhance traditional rehabilitation programs for these individuals. Intensive robot-aided sensorimotor training may have a positive effect on reducing impairment and disability and increasing reorganization of the adult brain. This approach may therefore efficaciously complement standard post-stroke multidisciplinary programs as shown by recent experimental trials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy. stef.masiero@unipd.it
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Masiero
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Celia
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Armani
authors.forename: Giulio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rosati
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tavolato
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ferraro
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ortolani
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000295:instrumentation; D012371:Robotics; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation