title: Modeling upper limb clinical scales by robot-measured performance parameters.
abstract: The status of motor function in stroke survivors and the effect of any therapeutic intervention are generally measured by physiotherapists using clinical assessment scales that probe specific aspects of a subject's motor behavior. Although they are widely accepted, these measurement tools are limited by interrater and intrarater reliability and are time-consuming to apply. This paper analyzes the changes in movement kinematics and kinetics during robot-aided neurorehabilitation of subjects after stroke and verifies the possibility of estimating outcome measures by means of a set of robot measured parameters.
authors.affiliation: Bioengineering Service, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS, Rehabilitation Institutes of Pavia and Veruno(NO), Italy. roberto.colombo@fsm.it
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Colombo
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sterpi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mazzone
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pisano
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Delconte
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D034941:Upper Extremity / Q000502:physiology*