TY - GEN
T1 - Assessment of human wrist rigidity and pain in post-traumatic patients
AU - Albanese, Giulia A.
AU - Marini, Francesca
AU - Taglione, Elisa
AU - Gasparini, Cecilia
AU - Grandi, Sara
AU - Pettinelli, Foebe
AU - Sardelli, Claudio
AU - Catitti, Paolo
AU - Sandini, Giulio
AU - Masia, Lorenzo
AU - Zenzeri, Jacopo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - The aim of this work is to present a novel robot-based method to assess the sources of a lack of functionality in patients with recent traumatic wrist injuries. Post-traumatic patients experience limited range of motion as well as strength and proprioceptive deficits. These dysfunctions are related to different complications that usually follow the injuries: pain, increased rigidity, lack of movement fluency and loss of stability could arise differently, according to the severity, site and kind of lesion. Their quantitative evaluation could be essential to target rehabilitation treatments to the specific problem and to optimize and speed up the functional recovery. The use of robotic devices for assessment not only ensures objectivity and repeatability, but could also help to estimate the goodness of the evaluation itself, in terms of reliability and patient's engagement. Ten subjects with different types of wrist injuries were enrolled in this study and required to perform passive robot-guided reaching movements. Forces and angular positions were used to evaluate subject's range of motion, rigidity and pain that, considered together, allowed a comprehensive characterization of the level of healing and functionality achieved by each subject.
AB - The aim of this work is to present a novel robot-based method to assess the sources of a lack of functionality in patients with recent traumatic wrist injuries. Post-traumatic patients experience limited range of motion as well as strength and proprioceptive deficits. These dysfunctions are related to different complications that usually follow the injuries: pain, increased rigidity, lack of movement fluency and loss of stability could arise differently, according to the severity, site and kind of lesion. Their quantitative evaluation could be essential to target rehabilitation treatments to the specific problem and to optimize and speed up the functional recovery. The use of robotic devices for assessment not only ensures objectivity and repeatability, but could also help to estimate the goodness of the evaluation itself, in terms of reliability and patient's engagement. Ten subjects with different types of wrist injuries were enrolled in this study and required to perform passive robot-guided reaching movements. Forces and angular positions were used to evaluate subject's range of motion, rigidity and pain that, considered together, allowed a comprehensive characterization of the level of healing and functionality achieved by each subject.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071172705&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICORR.2019.8779508
DO - 10.1109/ICORR.2019.8779508
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 31374612
AN - SCOPUS:85071172705
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
SP - 89
EP - 94
BT - 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2019
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 16th IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2019
Y2 - 24 June 2019 through 28 June 2019
ER -