Accepted Manuscript Robot training for hand motor recovery in subacute stroke patients: a randomised controlled trial Felipe Orihuela-Espina, PhD, Giovana Femat Roldán, MD, Israel SánchezVillavicencio, MD, Lorena Palafox, MSc, Ronald Leder, PhD, Luis Enrique Sucar, PhD, Jorge Hernández-Franco, PhD PII:
S0894-1130(15)00182-9
DOI:
10.1016/j.jht.2015.11.006
Reference:
HANTHE 943
To appear in:
Journal of Hand Therapy
Received Date: 16 March 2015 Revised Date:
17 October 2015
Accepted Date: 15 November 2015
Please cite this article as: Orihuela-Espina F, Femat Roldán G, Sánchez-Villavicencio I, Palafox L, Leder R, Sucar LE, Hernández-Franco J, Robot training for hand motor recovery in subacute stroke patients: a randomised controlled trial, Journal of Hand Therapy (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.jht.2015.11.006. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
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Robot training for hand motor recovery in subacute stroke patients: a randomised controlled trial Authors: Orihuela-Espina, Felipe (PhD)1; Femat Roldán, Giovana (MD)2; Sánchez-
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Enrique (PhD)1; Hernández-Franco, Jorge (PhD)2
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Villavicencio, Israel (MD)2; Palafox, Lorena (MSc)2; Leder, Ronald (PhD)3; Sucar, Luis
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1 National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico 2 National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (INNN), Mexico City, Mexico
Corresponding author: Felipe Orihuela-Espina
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3 National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
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Dept. of Computational Sciences
National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE)
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Sta. Maria Tonantzintla, San Andrés Cholula, Puebla
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PC. 72840 e-mail:
[email protected] ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Conflict of interest: None. We do not have any relation commercial or academic with the robot maker Tyromotion (Graz, Austria), or its distributor in Mexico, Tecno Lógica
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Keywords: robotic rehabilitation, stroke, subacute
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Mexicana (TLM) S.A. de C.V. (Mexico City, Mexico).
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Manuscript length: 3444 words (excluding refs and figure captions); 3 figures and 2 tables.
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Running title: Robot training for hand recovery
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Robot training for hand motor recovery in subacute stroke patients: a randomised controlled trial
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Abstract
Background. Evidence of superiority of robot training for the hand over classical therapies remains controversial. During subacute stage, hand training is likely to be the most useful.
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Aim. To establish whether robot active assisted therapies provides any additional motor
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recovery for the hand when administered during the subacute stage (