Gait rehabilitation machines based on programmable footplates

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Gait rehabilitation machines based on programmable footplates
2007
Henning Schmidt,corresponding author1,2 Cordula Werner,2 Rolf Bernhardt,1 Stefan Hesse,2 and Jàrg Kr?ger1
1Department of Automation and Robotics, Fraunhofer IPK, Pascalstrasse 8-9, 10587 Berlin, Germany
2Department of Neurological Rehabilitation, Charit» University Hospital, Kladower Damm 223, 14089 Berlin, Germany
J Neuroengineering Rehabil.

Background
Gait restoration is an integral part of rehabilitation of brain lesioned patients. Modern concepts favour a task-specific repetitive approach, i.e. who wants to regain walking has to walk, while tone-inhibiting and gait preparatory manoeuvres had dominated therapy before. Following the first mobilization out of the bed, the wheelchair-bound patient should have the possibility to practise complex gait cycles as soon as possible. Steps in this direction were treadmill training with partial body weight support and most recently gait machines enabling the repetitive training of even surface gait and even of stair climbing.

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