Neurorehabilitation using a voluntary driven exoskeletal robot improves trunk function in patients with chronic spinal cord injury: a single-arm study.

Abstract:

:Body weight-supported treadmill training with the voluntary driven exoskeleton (VDE-BWSTT) has been shown to improve the gait function of patients with chronic spinal cord injury. However, little is known whether VDE-BWSTT can effectively improve the trunk function of patients with chronic spinal cord injury. In this open-label, single-arm study, nine patients with chronic spinal cord injury at the cervical or thoracic level (six males and three females, aged 37.8 ± 15.6 years, and time since injury 51.1 ± 31.8 months) who underwent outpatient VDE-BWSTT training program at Keio University Hospital, Japan from September 2017 to March 2019 were included. All patients underwent twenty 60-minute gait training sessions using VDE. Trunk muscular strength, i.e., the maximum force against which patient could maintain a sitting posture without any support, was evaluated in four directions: anterior, posterior, and lateral (right and left) after 10 and 20 training sessions. After intervention, lateral muscular strength significantly improved. In addition, a significant positive correlation was detected between the change in lateral trunk muscular strength after 20 training sessions relative to baseline and gait speed. The change in trunk muscular strength after 20 training sessions relative to baseline was greatly correlated with patient age. This suggests that older adult patients with chronic spinal cord injury achieved a greater improvement in trunk muscle strength following VDE-BWSTT. All these findings suggest that VDE-BWSTT can improve the trunk function of patients with chronic spinal cord injury and the effect might be greater in older adult patients. The study was approved by the Keio University of Medicine Ethics Committee (IRB No. 20150355-3) on September 26, 2017.

journal_name

Neural Regen Res

authors

Okawara H,Tashiro S,Sawada T,Sugai K,Matsubayashi K,Kawakami M,Nori S,Tsuji O,Nagoshi N,Matsumoto M,Nakamura M

doi

10.4103/1673-5374.317983

keywords:

["body weight-supported treadmill training","gait disorders","hybrid assistive limb","neurologic","neurophysiotherapy","postural balance","precision medicine","robot-assisted gait training","robotics","spinal cord injury","trunk\n"]

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2022-02-01 00:00:00

pages

427-432

issue

2

eissn

1673-5374

issn

1876-7958

pii

NeuralRegenRes_2022_17_2_427_317983

journal_volume

17

pub_type

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