Ep 11: Exo-Suit Clinical Research Summary

In Episode 11, Lou Awad, PT, DPT, PhD builds upon his previous talk (Episode 05) to summarize findings from his research on exo-suits for post-stroke rehabilitation. Lou’s research covers the immediate changes which occur during exo-suit augmented gait training, including improvements in ground clearance, paretic propulsion, and reductions in compensatory strategies such as circumduction and hip-hiking.

More recently, Lou worked with collaborators from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Moss Rehabilitataion, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Kessler Foundation, and TIRR Memorial Hermann, to publish some of the results from the ReStore clinical trial, examining some of the clinically meaningful therapeutic improvements in walking speed that were observed in patients post-stroke, following a series of 5 training visits with the ReStore Exo-Suit.

To learn more about ReWalk Robotics or the Topics in NeuroRehabilitation web series, please reach out to us at https://rewalk.com/contact/

In case you missed last week’s episode, please click here to watch Topics in NeuroRehabilitation – Episode 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRmIp…

To watch Lou’s previous episode, please click here to watch Topics in NeuroRehabilitation – Episode 05: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRmIp…

To learn more about the ReStore Exo-Suit, please visit: https://rewalk.com/restore-exo-suit/

To learn more about Lou’s work and the research that he presented in this talk, please follow the links below: Neuromotor Recovery Laboratory: https://sites.bu.edu/nrl/

Spaulding Stroke Research and Recovery Institute: https://spauldingrehab.org/research/p…

Harvard Biodesign Lab: https://biodesign.seas.harvard.edu/

References: Awad, Louis N., Jaehyun Bae, Kathleen O’Donnell, Stefano MM De Rossi, Kathryn Hendron, Lizeth H. Sloot, Pawel Kudzia et al. “A soft robotic exosuit improves walking in patients after stroke.” Science translational medicine 9, no. 400 (2017). https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/…

Awad, Louis N., Jaehyun Bae, Pawel Kudzia, Andrew Long, Kathryn Hendron, Kenneth G. Holt, Kathleen O’Donnell, Terry D. Ellis, and Conor J. Walsh. “Reducing circumduction and hip hiking during hemiparetic walking through targeted assistance of the paretic limb using a soft robotic exosuit.” American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation 96, no. 10 (2017): S157-S164. https://journals.lww.com/ajpmr/Abstra…

Bae, Jaehyun, Louis N. Awad, Andrew Long, Kathleen O’Donnell, Katy Hendron, Kenneth G. Holt, Terry D. Ellis, and Conor J. Walsh. “Biomechanical mechanisms underlying exosuit-induced improvements in walking economy after stroke.” Journal of Experimental Biology 221, no. 5 (2018). https://jeb.biologists.org/content/22…

Awad, Louis N., Pawel Kudzia, Dheepak Arumukhom Revi, Terry D. Ellis, and Conor J. Walsh. “Walking faster and farther with a soft robotic exosuit: Implications for post-stroke gait assistance and rehabilitation.” IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology 1 (2020): 108-115. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/…

Awad, Louis N., Alberto Esquenazi, Gerard E. Francisco, Karen J. Nolan, and Arun Jayaraman. “The ReWalk ReStore™ soft robotic exosuit: a multi-site clinical trial of the safety, reliability, and feasibility of exosuit-augmented post-stroke gait rehabilitation.” Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation 17, no. 1 (2020): 1-11. https://link.springer.com/article/10….