Robotic Rehab
From: Technology Review - 09/2005 - page 29
By: Kevin Bullis

700,000 people in the United States have strokes each year, and almost a
third of those who survive lose the ability to walk on their own. The good
news is that physical therapy can help many regain lost abilities and even
walk again.  

The bad news is that government and private insurers have recently cut
support for therapy. From 1994 to 2001, the duration of rehabilitation stays
for stroke survivors decreased by a third, and Joel Stein, chief medical
officer of Boston's Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, says this trend
continues. A prototype robot built by Evanston, IL, startup Chicago PT may
speed up patients' progress, allowing more of them to walk before the window
for therapy closes. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/09/issue/forward_rehab.asp

Links:
Dave Brown
http://www.nupt.northwestern.edu/Root2003/Faculty/brown.htm

Locomotion after Stroke
http://www.nupt.northwestern.edu/Root2003/Research/Research%20Brown.htm

Chicago PT
http://www.chicagopt.com/
