Effect of robot-assisted training for lower limb rehabilitation on lower limb function in stroke patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

IF 2.4 3区医学 Q3 NEUROSCIENCES

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-03-05 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2025.1549379

Hongyao Wang, Haifei Shen, Yi Han, Wenlu Zhou, Junjie Wang

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Abstract

Objective: The effectiveness of lower extremity rehabilitation robots in rehabilitating stroke patients is still controversial. With this systematic review, the aim is to analyze whether the assisted training of the lower limb rehabilitation robot is more effective in promoting the rehabilitation of lower limb function in stroke patients compared with traditional physical therapy.

Methods: We conducted a thorough search of nine databases for relevant randomized controlled trials published between the time of their construction and February 2024. The Cochrane Collaboration tool was used to assess the risk of bias in each included literature, and meta-analyses and subgroup analyses were carried out with Revman 5.4 software. This study followed the PRIMA reporting statement provided by EQUATOR.

Results: The meta-analysis includes 12 articles and 651 patients. Lower limb rehabilitation robot-assisted training significantly improved lower limb motor function, walking ability, and lower limb ability to balance in stroke patients. However, the effect on gait coordination was not statistically significant.

Conclusion: Robot-assisted training for lower limb rehabilitation may considerably enhance motor function, walking capacity, and balance function in stroke patients while also providing a novel option for patients to recuperate.

Systematic review registration: http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/#recordDetails, identifier CRD-42024504930.

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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 医学-神经科学

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4.70

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6.90%

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830

审稿时长

2-4 weeks

期刊介绍： Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is a first-tier electronic journal devoted to understanding the brain mechanisms supporting cognitive and social behavior in humans, and how these mechanisms might be altered in disease states. The last 25 years have seen an explosive growth in both the methods and the theoretical constructs available to study the human brain. Advances in electrophysiological, neuroimaging, neuropsychological, psychophysical, neuropharmacological and computational approaches have provided key insights into the mechanisms of a broad range of human behaviors in both health and disease. Work in human neuroscience ranges from the cognitive domain, including areas such as memory, attention, language and perception to the social domain, with this last subject addressing topics, such as interpersonal interactions, social discourse and emotional regulation. How these processes unfold during development, mature in adulthood and often decline in aging, and how they are altered in a host of developmental, neurological and psychiatric disorders, has become increasingly amenable to human neuroscience research approaches. Work in human neuroscience has influenced many areas of inquiry ranging from social and cognitive psychology to economics, law and public policy. Accordingly, our journal will provide a forum for human research spanning all areas of human cognitive, social, developmental and translational neuroscience using any research approach.