Kinematic Robot-Based Evaluation Scales and Clinical Counterparts to Measure Upper Limb Motor Performance in Patients With Chronic Stroke

摘要

BackgroundHuman-administered clinical scales are the accepted standard for quantifying motor performance of stroke subjects. Though widely accepted, these measurement tools are limited by interrater and intrarater reliability and are time consuming to apply. In contrast, robot-based measures are highly repeatable, have high resolution, and could potentially reduce assessment time. Although robotic and other objective metrics have proliferated in the literature, they are not as well established as clinical scales and their relationship to clinical scales is mostly unknown.