Using robots for rehabilitation
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MARS-RERC Machines Assisting Recovery from StrokeRehabilitation Engineering Research Center, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Machines Assisting Recovery from Stroke (MARS) is a center of excellence established by funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research's (NIDRR) . The research focuses on robots for rehabilitation therapy after hemispheric stroke, which is the most common neurological disorder that requires intensive and prolonged rehabilitation. Devices that assist the therapist in providing rationally based, intensive and long duration stroke treatments can also be used to monitor progress and help improve functional performance.
Simone Concepts is a partner in the program, providing design of technology used to measure human function after stroke.
Directors: Zev Rymer, PhD, and James L Patton, PhD.
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