Effects of Gait Rehabilitation Robot Combined with Electrical Stimulation on Spinal Cord Injury Patients' Blood Pressure.

• Tác giả: Kazutoshi Hatakeyama, Takehiro Iwami, Yuji Kasukawa, Ryota Kimura, Daisuke Kudo, Naohisa Miyakoshi, Daido Miyamoto, Kazuki Okura, Takahiro Sato, Tomohiro Suda, Yusuke Takahashi, Motoyuki Watanabe
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: Switzerland : Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 80421

Tóm tắt

 BACKGROUND: Orthostatic hypotension can occur during acute spinal cord injury (SCI) and subsequently persist. We investigated whether a gait rehabilitation robot combined with functional electrical stimulation (FES) stabilizes hemodynamics during orthostatic stress in SCI. METHODS: Six intermediate-phase SCI patients (five males and one female
  mean age: 49.5 years
  four with quadriplegia and two with paraplegia) participated. The participants underwent robotic training (RT), with a gait rehabilitation robot combined with FES, and tilt table training (TT). Hemodynamics were monitored using a laser Doppler flowmeter for the earlobe blood flow (EBF) and non-invasive blood pressure measurements. The EBF over time and the resting and exercise blood pressures were compared between each session. Adverse events were also evaluated. RESULTS: The EBF change decreased in TT but increased in RT at the 0.5-min slope ( CONCLUSIONS: RT with FES can reduce symptoms during orthostatic stress in intermediate-phase SCI. Future studies require a larger number of cases to generalize this study.