Data Collection and Acquisition capabilities for Wearable Robotic Rehabilitation

描述（由申请人提供）：在美国，每年有超过70万人中风，在任何给定的时间里，人口中都有超过450万中风幸存者。其中，大约有100万人因中风而严重残疾（美国心脏协会）。myomo公司开发了一种可穿戴机器人系统（e100），基于麻省理工学院开发的技术，它是新型机器人，生物反馈和康复理论的融合，为中风后残疾提供了一个潜在的更有效的解决方案。本应用程序建议通过集成数据收集能力和改进的测量模式来扩展和改进e100系统的临床和研究效用。除了开发系统级别的改进外，还将通过与斯波尔丁康复医院（SRH）的临床合作伙伴关系制定使用e100系统提供改进康复的培训方案。改进的数据采集和传感将在新治疗方案的背景下进行测试。拟议的工作将产生有效使用主动支具技术的培训方案，并改进设备操作和测量能力，将该技术定位为临床试验的一个点，以显示其作为长期康复工具的功效。鉴于目前中风发病率和流行率的趋势，这项技术将在未来发挥巨大的作用，通过使幸存者更加功能独立，同时改善他们的长期神经系统状况，帮助美国卫生保健系统管理卒中后康复和护理需求的巨大增长。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over 700,000 strokes occur each year in the United States, and there are over 4.5 million stroke survivors in the population at any given time. Of these, approximately 1 million have substantial disability as a result of their strokes (American Heart Association). myomo Inc. has developed a wearable robotic system (e100), based on MIT Developed Technology, which is the confluence of novel robotic, biofeedback, and rehabilitation theory, providing a potentially more effective solution to post-stroke disability. This application proposes work to extend and improve the clinical and research utility of the e100 system by integrating data collection capabilities and improved measurement modalities. In addition to development of systems level improvements, a training protocol that uses the e100 system to provide improved rehabilitation will be developed through the clinical partnership with Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH). The improved data acquisition and sensing will be tested in the context of the new therapy protocol. The proposed work will result in a training protocol that uses the active bracing technology effectively, and improved device operation and capabilities for measurement, positioning the technology at a point where it will be ready for a clinical trial to show efficacy as a long term rehabilitation tool. Relevance to Public Health Given the current trends in stroke incidence and prevalence, this technology will play a huge role in the future, helping the American health care system manage the huge growth in requirement for post-stroke rehabilitation and care by making survivors more functionally independent, while improving their long term neurological condition.