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Physiological responses and perceived exertion during robot-assisted treadmill walking in non-ambulatory stroke survivors.

Nina LefeberEmma De KeersmaeckerStieven HenderixMarc MichielsenFederica TamburellaNevio Luigi TagliamonteMarco MolinariBas de GeusEric KerckhofsEva Swinnen
Published in: Disability and rehabilitation (2019)
The assistance level that non-ambulatory stroke survivors require at their highest tolerable walking speed seems too high to sufficiently stress the cardiorespiratory system during robot-assisted treadmill walking.Implications for rehabilitationThe exercise intensity of 20-minute conventional robot-assisted treadmill walking can be low, and might be too low to challenge the cardiorespiratory system of non-ambulatory stroke survivors.Lowering the level of robotic assistance from 100% to 60% does not seem to increase the exercise intensity of 20-minute robot-assisted treadmill walking.
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