REHABOTICS: Integrated Rehabilitation System for People With Motor Disabilities

Summary

The goal of the Rehabotics project is the development of a comprehensive rehabilitation system to provide highly individualized treatment of upper limb function in patients with motor disorders due to acquired brain damage (eg stroke) or neurodegenerative disease (eg sclerosis), having as central pillar the integration of robotic systems and support functions. A key part of the proposed system is the development and evaluation of an innovative robotic extraskeletal device that will be applied in the form of a glove to the diseased limb of the neurological patient.

The proposed robotic system:

1. will measure various motor and kinematic parameters of the extremity in order to assess the patient's condition and progress, and
2. will offer a specialized rehabilitation program (therapeutic exercises, retraining of functional movements and support of daily activities) through an interactive virtual environment provided by the Rehabotics platform.

The aim is to provide an environment for the provision of a high level of treatment and support services to patients with hand mobility disorders which will take place both in the clinical environment and in the patient's home through telemedicine applications.

To demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed system, Rehabotics will be applied on post-stoke patients for rehabilitation while also using a control group receiving traditional physiotherapy.

Conditions

• Stroke
• Spasticity, Muscle
• Upper Extremity Dysfunction

Interventions

DEVICE

Rehabotics Physiotherapy

The intervention will be consisted of sessions for participants in the intervention group which includes a repetition of each of the four Sollerman AR Games named, Wallet, Key, Jar, Screwdriver and one repetition of Balloon Pop. Participants will interact with the AR Box and Block Test (BBT) and the serious games under controlled conditions. A clinician will be present throughout the whole session providing help if participants encounter any difficulties. Following the games, the clinician will initiate a stretching program using the Active Exoskeletal Aid, performing 3 sets of 10 repetitions on the finger flexors of the patient's hand. Each rehabilitation session will last 30 minutes and will be conducted three times a week. Similarly, the traditional physiotherapy training program will be prescribed for the control group and will be consisted of sessions lasting 30 minutes per day, three days per week. Both programs duration will be five weeks.

OTHER

Traditional Physiotherapy

Similarly, the hand functional training program prescribed for the control group consisted of sessions lasting 30 minutes per day, three days per week. Both programs lasted for five weeks and were designed by two clinical experts.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Ioannina

  collaborator OTHER

• Physioloft, Physiotherapy Center

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Peloponnese

  collaborator OTHER

• Ostracon Ltd

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Pantelis Syringas

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Georgios Papagiannis, PhD · Physioloft

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

30 Years

Max Age

85 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-11-04

Primary Completion

2023-11-03

Completion

2023-11-03

Countries

• Greece

Study Locations