AMES Treatment of the Impaired Leg in Chronic Stroke Patients

Our research objective is to develop procedures to rehabilitate those stroke patients who, through conventional therapies, are not brought to a level of maximal recovery. The aims of the proposed project are to obtain a set of data from a total of 20 chronic stroke subjects, all with severe lower extremity disability, between the ages of 18-85, using a robotic therapeutic device placed in a rehabilitation clinic. This data will allow us to quantify the extent to which a combination of robotic-assisted exercise and tendon vibration from the AMES beta device induces secondary recovery from the effects of stroke on the lower extremity.