Article

Traditional assessment of a stroke subject's motor ability, carried out by a
therapist who observes and rates the subject's motor behavior using ordinal
measurements scales, is subjective, time consuming and lacks sensitivity.
Rehabilitation robots, which have been the subject of intense inquiry over the
last decade, are equipped with sensors that are used to develop objective
measures of motor behaviors in a semiautomated way during therapy. This article
reviews the current contributions of robot-assisted motor assessment of the upper
limb. It summarizes the various measures related to movement performance, the
models of motor recovery in stroke subjects and the relationship of robotic
measures to standard clinical measures. It analyses the possibilities offered by
current robotic assessment techniques and the aspects to address to make robotic
assessment a mainstream motor assessment method.

Langue : ANGLAIS