Meeting abstract
https://doi.org/10.21751/FRM-38-1-2-3
TECHNOLOGY IN REHABILITATION: THE NEED FOR INDIVIDUALIZING TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION IN STROKE
Ruud Selles
; Erasmus MC – University Medical Center Rotterdam. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine & Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Abstract
Technological advancement promises to enhance current rehabilitation strategies to obtain better outcomes in stroke. Such promising technologies include rehabilitation robotics, virtual reality training, and non-invasive brain stimulation such as TMS and tDCS. Experience has also learned, however, that these techniques must be very precisely tailored to what stroke patients need to succeed. For example, an early Lokomat trial on gait training in stroke showed that this training was inferior to conventional gait training (Hilder et al., 2009), and many years of further robotic development were needed to make robotic training more successful. Such optimization may require more general technological improvement as well as individualization to meet individual patient needs, recognizing the relevant between-subject variation.
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316070
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Publication date:
14.3.2024.
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