A Robotic Platform for Modelling, Assessment and Rehabilitation of Movement Disorders

加拿大的几项研究已经确定，未来20年加拿大老年人口的预期快速增长是加拿大医疗保健系统面临的一个重大问题。许多与年龄相关的疾病，如卒中后残疾、帕金森病（PD）和原发性震颤（ET），反映了感觉运动整合（SMI）障碍。这导致老年人行动能力受损，并直接影响他们与健康有关的生活质量。解决这些感觉运动功能障碍的可能方法是通过开发和实施针对特定预防、诊断和治疗问题的新型经济有效技术和技术。众所周知，有组织、有监督和重复的感觉运动（身体、知觉）锻炼可以大大降低与感觉运动功能障碍相关的不良事件的发生率，在某些情况下还可以加快恢复速度。

The expected rapid increase in Canada’s population of seniors in the next 20 years has been identified in several Canadian studies as a significant problem facing the Canadian healthcare system. Many of these age-related disorders such as post-stroke disabilities, Parkinson’s disease (PD), and Essential Tremor (ET) reflect sensorimotor integration (SMI) disorders. This results in impaired mobility in seniors and directly affects their health-related quality of life. A possible approach to address these sensorimotor dysfunctions is through the development and implementation of novel cost effective technologies and techniques targeted at specific preventative, diagnostic and therapeutic issues. It is known that organized, supervised and repetitive sensorimotor (physical, perceptual) exercises can substantially decrease the occurrence rate of adverse events associated with sensorimotor dysfunctions and in some cases accelerate recovery rates.