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Degree of muscle-and-tendon tonus effects on kinesthetic illusion in wrist joints toward advanced rehabilitation robotics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2021

Hiraku Komura Open the ORCID record for Hiraku Komura [Opens in a new window] ,
Takumu Kubo ,
Masakazu Honda  and
Masahiro Ohka
Hiraku Komura*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Takumu Kubo
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Masakazu Honda
Affiliation:
Industrial Research Institute of Shizuoka Prefecture, Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan
Masahiro Ohka
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: komura@cntl.kyutech.ac.jp
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Abstract

Due to increasing demand for rehabilitation and therapy for cerebrovascular diseases, patients require advanced development of medical rehabilitation robots. In our laboratory, we focus on the formation capability of the substitute neural path caused by brain plasticity using the kinesthetic illusion (KI), which is effective for therapies using robots. In KI, people perceive an illusionary limb movement without an actual movement when a vibration stimulus is applied to a limb’s tendons. In previous research, the optimal frequency that induces the maximum KI has a correlation factor of about 0.5 with the tendon’s natural frequency when a human subject is in a state of laxity. However, we do not know whether the above finding can be applied to actual rehabilitation because muscles and tendons are sometimes in tonus during rehabilitation, a state that varies the natural frequency. In this study, we investigate the correlation between the optimal and natural frequencies of tendon by systematically changing their tension to clarify the effects on the illusion induced by the muscle and the tendon when they are in tonus. We identified a negative correlation between the optimal and natural frequencies when they are in tonus, although a positive correlation appeared when they are in laxity. This result suggests that KI’s optimal frequency should be changed based on the degree of the tendon and muscle tonus. Therefore, our present findings provide a suitable vibration frequency that induces KI due to the degree of the tendon and muscle tonus during robot therapies.

Keywords

robot therapyneurorehabilitation roboticskinesthetic illusionmuscle spindlenatural frequencyproprioceptionoptimal conditionmodal testpsychophysical experiment
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Research Article
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Robotica , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , April 2022 , pp. 1222 - 1232
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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