Helping stroke survivors walk as normally as possible - Science Nation

Research team focuses on “locomotor learning” for lasting rehabilitation
Description: A major issue in rehabilitation robotics is that devices such as exoskeletons and treadmills correct patients' movements only while they are using the device. Gelsy Torres-Oviedo, who has a doctorate in biomedical engineering and is the director of the Sensorimotor Learning Lab at the University of Pittsburgh, hopes to change that.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Torres-Oviedo leads a research team that uses rehabilitation robotics and motion capture cameras to study "locomotor learning." That's the ability of a patient with an impaired gait to adapt their walking patterns and learn new movements. This research has broad impact for public health because it aims to guide the use of technology for effective gait rehabilitation after stroke, which is the leading cause of long-term disability in the United States.
"We're very interested in understanding the factors that determine that specificity in learning and how we can manipulate them. We want to help patients retain what they've learned and carry it over to their daily living," says Torres-Oviedo.
The ultimate goal is to use quantitative tools to characterize in a very systematic way the impairments that every stroke survivor has and tailor the intervention.
The research in this episode was supported by NSF award #1535036, the role of naturalistic movements on the generalization of locomotor learning.
NSF Grant URL: www.nsf.gov/aw...
Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent
Kate Tobin, Science Nation Producer

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Thank god I found this page!! Praying for healing upon all of us let’s keep fighting

[@whiteshadow1771]

How can one find programs like this in other states? I had a stroke in 2017, this would be good for me.

[@MrsTessWren]

Good luck to you, it’s very bad here right now for stroke survivors, especially if you’re not a new stroke survivor.

[@heatherjones8768]

I want to try this! I had a stroke in 2017, I wear an AFO & use a quad cane every time I walk

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I'm in the philippines can I have this kind of rehab how??

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[@fairyyz1535]

I was just in the Philippines and while there had deep tissue massages by someone who knew how to loosen up connective tissues and muscles. I wish I had stayed longer because I can see improvements with the way I walk and my balanced has improved. It’s so important to include massages in recovery. Palihut kayo.

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[@Indra.artist]

the gait can be corrected by hand, I have help a few thousand people with this both here ande in India

[@Indra.artist]

they get no results because they do not address the connective tissues the fascia, it carries the movement memories in it and must be adjusted by hand

[@fairyyz1535]

It’s so important to address the fascia not just the muscles. Deep massages to the fascia help loosen the tightening that causes abnormal movements of the limbs.

[@timothybucky7170]

ten years ago all thought wrongly that we walked with our brain. we have a walk brain in our spine and so can train someone with dead brain in their head to walk with this other brain.

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