Feedback-Based Training

When a person moves his or her muscle, it can create a somatosensory (relating to the perception of sensory stimuli from the skin and internal organs) feedback signal that not only tells the brain where the limb is, but also helps tune the connections between the somatosensory systems and the motor system. This interplay is constantly adjusted every time a person moves a muscle.

NeuroRobotics is designed to maximize this interchange by adjusting to a person's body and using an individual's own electrical muscle activity signal, although it may be very small and weak, to control movement of a hemiparetic limb.

NeuroRobotics is designed to engage the central nervous system into the control loop, through a combination of proprioceptive (unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself), tactile, and visual sensory feedback. With this capability, patients can accomplish motion control with NeuroRobotics acting as a feedback-based, closed-loop strength amplifier.