International Journal of Neurorehabilitation

Jens Chapman

Publications

• Pilot Study
  Functional Neurorehabilitation using the Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL): A First Experience in the United States
  Author(s): Emre Yilmaz, Christian Fisahn, Angeli Mayadev, Kim Kobota, Ziadee Cambier, Cameron K Schmidt, Daniel C Norvell and Jens ChapmanEmre Yilmaz, Christian Fisahn, Angeli Mayadev, Kim Kobota, Ziadee Cambier, Cameron K Schmidt, Daniel C Norvell and Jens Chapman
  
  Introduction: The Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL, Cyberdyne, Japan) facilitates voluntary, user-driven ambulation through a neurologically-controlled system based on bioelectrical signals derived from the user. This allows for the repeated execution of physiologically faithful gait patterns, crucial to recovery in cases of neurologic motor deficit. In this series, we present the first three patients in the United States to undergo HAL neurorehabilitation training. Patient and methods: A case series of three patients participating in a single-center prospective, interventional pilot study, suffering neurologic motor deficits secondary to spinal cord infarct following a pulmonary embolism (patient 1), multiple sclerosis (patient 2) and the surgical resection of a petroclival meningioma (patient 3). The patients underwent 60 sessions of body weight-sup.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2376-0281.1000306

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