Virtual ankle and balance trainer system

A rehabilitation system that combines robotics and interactive gaming to facilitate performance of task-specific, repetitive exercise to enable individuals undergoing rehabilitation to improve the performance of coordinated movements of the ankle, and to practice balance activities, is disclosed. Mo...

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Hauptverfasser: Holden, Maureen K, Mavroidis, Constantinos, Ding, Ye, Malack, Joseph, Bularzik, Rebecca, Willard, Nathan, Deso, Timothy, Pietrusinski, Maciej, Weinberg, Brian
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A rehabilitation system that combines robotics and interactive gaming to facilitate performance of task-specific, repetitive exercise to enable individuals undergoing rehabilitation to improve the performance of coordinated movements of the ankle, and to practice balance activities, is disclosed. More specifically, the rehabilitation system includes at least one two degree-of-freedom robotic, haptic interface for a mammalian foot and interactive gaming hardware that is coupled to a controller, to provide a virtual reality-like environment.