IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2020 Jun;28(6):1299-1307. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2020.2987428. Epub 2020 Apr 13.
Robot-assisted therapy for gait rehabilitation of patients with neurological disorders usually combines a body weight support system with a treadmill system. Lokomat is one of the most used devices for gait rehabilitation. This device allows therapists to focus on the patient and the therapy. However, this therapy session is based on multi-tasking processes, which are often difficult for a therapist to manage. In this work, a Socially Assistive Robot (SAR) was integrated into a neurorehabilitation program as a collaborator agent to promote patient engagement and performance during the therapy. This short-term study presents the effects comparing the social robot condition and control condition with a group of four neurological patients using repeated measurement design. As a remarkable result, patients improved thoracic 18.44% and cervical 32.23% posture on average with SAR assistance. This study demonstrated the feasibility of the integration of a social robot as a complement of gait rehabilitation programs.
机器人辅助治疗常用于神经障碍患者的步态康复，它通常将体重支持系统和跑步机系统结合在一起。Lokomat 是最常用于步态康复的设备之一。该设备允许治疗师将注意力集中在患者和治疗上。然而，这种治疗方案基于多项任务的处理，这对治疗师来说往往很难管理。在这项工作中，社会辅助机器人（SAR）被整合到神经康复计划中，作为协作代理，以促进患者在治疗过程中的参与度和表现。这项短期研究通过重复测量设计比较了社会机器人条件和对照组与一组 4 名神经患者的效果。作为一项显著的结果，患者在 SAR 辅助下平均改善了 18.44%的胸 1 和 32.23%的颈 1 姿势。本研究证明了将社交机器人作为步态康复方案的补充进行整合的可行性。
