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Front. Neurorobot.
Volume 18 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2024.1401931
This article is part of the Research Topic Insights in Neurorobotics: 2023-2024 View all 5 articles

I-BaR: Integrated Balance Rehabilitation Framework

Provisionally accepted
Tugce Ersoy Tugce Ersoy 1*Pınar Kaya Pınar Kaya 2Elif Hocaoglu Elif Hocaoglu 2,3Ramazan Unal Ramazan Unal 1
  • 1 Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Türkiye
  • 2 Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Türkiye
  • 3 SABITA (Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies) Istanbul Medipol University, İstanbul, Türkiye

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    Neurological diseases are observed in approximately one billion people worldwide. A further increase is foreseen at the global level as a result of population growth and aging. Individuals with neurological disorders often experience cognitive, motor, sensory, and lower extremity dysfunctions. Thus, the possibility of falling and balance problems arise due to the postural control deficiencies that occur as a result of the deterioration in the integration of multi-sensory information. we propose a novel rehabilitation framework, Integrated Balance Rehabilitation (I-BaR), to improve the effectiveness of the rehabilitation with objective assessment, individualized therapy, convenience with different disability levels and adoption of assist-as-needed paradigm and, with integrated rehabilitation process as whole, i.e., ankle-foot preparation, balance, and stepping phases, respectively. Integrated Balance Rehabilitation allows patients to improve their balance ability by providing multi-modal feedback: visual via utilization of Virtual Reality; vestibular via anteroposterior and mediolateral perturbations with the robotic platform; proprioceptive via haptic feedback.

    Keywords: Balance rehabilitation, multi-modal sensory feedback, robotic rehabilitation, Anticipatory postural adjustment, compensatory postural adjustment, Rehabilitation methodology I-BaR: Integrated Balance Rehabilitation Framework

    Received: 16 Mar 2024; Accepted: 10 Jun 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Ersoy, Kaya, Hocaoglu and Unal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Tugce Ersoy, Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Türkiye

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