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Robotic physical therapy improves movement long after stroke

t in the shoulder and upper arm, Fasoli says.

At the end of the treatment we observed improved movement abilities in the exercised limb, she says. But although patients had less impairment meaning they could move the arm better than before beginning treatment there was no increase in abnormal muscle tone, she says.

The results are encouraging, says Fasoli, but she adds that real functional improvements will come when survivors can improve hand and wrist movements. This is the goal of a future robot study. The robot is now commercially available for research and clinical use and has been renamed InMotion2.

Fasoli predicts that MIT-Manus and other high-tech approaches to rehabilitation will make stroke rehabilitation more affordable and more convenient.


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Contact: Karen Hunter or Bridgette McNeill
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American Heart Association
8-Feb-2002


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