Motivation, expectations, and usability of a driven gait orthosis in stroke patients and their therapists.

CONCLUSIONS: Stroke user group patients seem quite motivated to train with the DGO and both patients and therapists reasonably believe that this training could improve gait functioning. Therapists are moderately satisfied with the usability of the DGO, but there is room for improvement with respect to usefulness and ease of use.
PMID: 27996894 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - December 19, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Swinnen E, Lefeber N, Willaert W, De Neef F, Bruyndonckx L, Spooren A, Michielsen M, Ramon T, Kerckhofs E Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research