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Stroke patients tend to suffer from mobility impairments, whether it is in upper or lower limbs this mobility and/or coordination loss translates directly into a decrease in independence and quality of life. Those patients if quickly inserted into neuro-rehabilitation programs, can regain some of the lost capacities they used to have thus improving their quality of life. This study aims at evaluating the effectiveness of haptic robotic aided therapies when applied to stroke patients. Though lacking a control group, the improvement in the mobility of the patients can be seen both, quantitatively and qualitatively.
We would like to thank Fundacion GMP fur funding this project and Dr Marcos Rios Lago for helping us through the statistical analysis that made these results possible.
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Rodriguez-Guerrero, C., Ana, B.M., Navarrete, P.O., Fraile, J.C., Farina, P.R. (2013). Preliminary Results from the Use of the SOFTROBOT Platform in Stroke Patients. In: Pons, J., Torricelli, D., Pajaro, M. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34546-3_34
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