Robot-Mediated Program May Improve Speech and Physical Therapy in Stroke
From: Rehab Management News - 03/27/2013

A case study using a humanoid robot to treat a stroke patient demonstrated
notable speech and physical therapy gains and improved quality life,
University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst researchers say. The study
centered on assessing how therapy interventions in one domain, speech,
affected interventions in the physical therapy arena, in two different
delivery scenarios.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.rehabpub.com/news2/18717-robot-mediated-program-may-improve-speech-and-physical-therapy-in-stroke/

Links:
Yu-kyong Choe
http://www.umass.edu/family/crf-profiles/yu-kyong-choe

Interdisciplinary Stroke Rehabilitation Delivered by a Humanoid Robot: Simultaneous vs. Alternating Therapy Schedules
http://aphasiology.pitt.edu/archive/00002322/
http://aphasiology.pitt.edu/archive/00002322/01/130-208-1-RV-Yu-kyong_Choe.pdf

Choe awarded grant to study robot-mediated stroke rehabilitation
http://www.umass.edu/sphhs/book/export/html/1178

Stroke Rehabilitation
http://people.cs.umass.edu/~hjung/pmwiki.php?n=Research.StrokeRehabilitation

Therapy robot developed at UMass has successful first test run
http://dailycollegian.com/2013/03/29/therapy-robot-developed-at-umass-has-successful-first-test-run/

uBot-5
http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/index.php/Robots/UBot-5