Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a disorder of posture and movement due to an imperfection or lesion in the immature brain. CP is often associated to sensory deficits, cognition impairments, communication and motor disabilities, behaviour issues, seizure disorder, pain and secondary musculoskeletal problems. New strategies are needed to help to promote, maintain, and rehabilitate the functional capacity, and thereby diminish the dedication and assistance required and the economical demands that this condition represents for the patient, the caregivers and the whole society. This paper describes the conceptualization and development of the integrated CPWalker robotic platform to support novel therapies for CP rehabilitation. This platform (Smart Walker + exoskeleton) is controlled by a multimodal interface to establish the interaction of CP children with robot-based therapies. The objective of these therapies is to improve the physical skills of children with CP and similar disorders. CPWalker concept will promote the earlier incorporation of CP patients to the rehabilitation therapy and increase the level of intensity and frequency of the exercises according to the task, which will enable the maintenance of therapeutic methods in daily basis, with the intention to lead to significant improvements in the treatment outcome.
El objetivo de esta investigación es hacer un análisis exploratorio a través de un diseño cuasi-experimental con grupo control no equivalente de los efectos que las actividades del método BAPNE tienen sobre las emociones, la ansiedad, el “flow” y la conducta social en alumnos de Grado Profesional de Música. Los resultados obtenidos apoyan nuestras hipótesis de investigación con diferencias estadísticamente significativas en medidas pre-post del grupo experimental con p< .05 para emociones, ansiedad-estado y flow. Sugiriendo que las actividades BAPNE favorecen las emociones agradables, disminuyen la ansiedad estado y generan una experiencia alta de flow. Para la conducta social, sin embargo, no se han detectado cambios significativos en las medidas tomadas con el cuestionario BAS3.Adoptant un modèle quasi-expérimental avec un groupe témoin non-équivalent, cette recherche conduit une analyse exploratoire des effets que les activités de la méthode BAPNE ont sur les émotions, l'anxiété, le “flow” et le comportement social chez les étudiants en musique. Les résultats obtenus soutiennent notre hypothèse de recherche avec des différences statistiquement significatives dans les mesures pré-post du groupe expérimental avec p < .05 pour les émotions, l'anxiété état et le flow. Ils suggèrent que les activités de BAPNE favorisent les émotions agréables, diminuent l'anxiété état et génèrent une expérience élevée de flow. Pour le comportement social, cependant, aucun changement significatif n'a été détecté dans les mesures prises avec le questionnaire BAS3.
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