Research report 2008 - Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems

Generation of movement patterns for stroke patients by means of controlled electrical stimulation

Authors
Schauer, Thomas; Raisch, Jörg
Departments

Fachgruppe: System- und Regelungstheorie (Prof. Dr. Jörg Raisch)
MPI Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Magdeburg

Summary
Rehabilitation after stroke requires repetitive exercising of impaired movements to relearn lost motor functions. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) represents one possibility to generate movements in the presence of paresis. Using this method, paretic muscles are activated. This provides efficient stimuli for the central nervous system to enhance motoric facilitation. However, precise movements can only be realized by electrical stimulation if the latter is embedded into a feedback control loop, where the stimulation intensity is permanently adapted depending on the continuously measured state of the movement.

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