Hermano Igo Krebs

TL;DR: This characterization of young healthy subjects' ankle mechanical impedance with active muscles will serve as a baseline to investigate pathophysiological ankle behaviors of biomechanically and/or neurologically impaired patients.

TL;DR: VA ROBOTICS demonstrates the feasibility of conducting multicenter clinical trials to rigorously test new rehabilitative devices before their introduction to clinical practice, and test the safety and efficacy of the MIT-Manus robotic device for chronic upper extremity impairment following stroke.

TL;DR: Chronic UE deficits because of stroke are responsive to intensive motor task training, however, training outside the horizontal plane in a gravity present environment using a combination of vertical with planar robots was not superior to training with the planar robot alone.

TL;DR: In a cohort of stroke survivors, motor performance kinematics improved when tDCS was delivered prior to robotic training, but not when delivered during or after training.

TL;DR: This overview addresses basic principles related to robotic therapy applied to upper limb paresis and demonstrates how this innovation is an evidence-based approach that meets both the improved clinical and more fundamental knowledge-base about regaining effective motor function after stroke and the need of more objective, flexible and controlled therapeutic paradigms.