ROBERT® as an Intervention to Enhance Muscle Strength After Spinal Cord Injury

"Intervention:~Training will be conducted with the robot ROBERT®. 3 times a week for 8 weeks the patient will conduct 60 repetitions of hip flexion of one leg. The patient is lying supine. ROBERT is attached to the patient's lower leg. The physiotherapist guides the patient's leg in hip flexion and ROBERT record the movement. The ROBERT is attached to the patient's lower leg and thereby eliminating the gravity of the leg. The physiotherapist guides the patient's leg in hip flexion and ROBERT record the movement. ROBERT is set in active or guided mode and will be individually adjusted. When practice starts the patient get visual feedback to the range of movement of the hip flexion plus the amount of repetitions conducted and persisting."