Ronit Feingold-Polak, PhD- Robotics- Humanoid Robot-Based Physical Therapy for Neurological Rehabilitation

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

For the past 16 years, Romit Feingold has worked as a physical therapist with people who have suffered from stroke and other forms of neurological damage. She’s noticed one problem in particular: the average 45-minute therapy session covers just a fraction of the amount of work and effort that patients need to put into their rehabilitation, leaving them to carry out the rest on their own. Unfortunately–whether because of frustration, boredom, or lack of motivation–many patients fail to follow through.
This is where Feingold sees an opportunity for robotics to engage and motivate patients to maintain the necessary amount of therapy. Currently in the works is the development of a humanlike, inviting, and friendly robot designed to guide and encourage patients through upper extremity exercises.
In its final form, the robot should be able to detect and ensure that the patient is performing each exercise correctly. By incorporating a variety of interactive games throughout the exercises, it is hoped that patients will feel more engaged with and excited about the work needed in order to reach maximum recovery.
Tune in to hear the details, and visit http://shelly453.wixsite.com/levy-tzedek-lab to learn more about this ongoing research.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.0	Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.
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0:25.0	Hello this is Richard Jacobs with the future tech podcast. My guest is Miss
0:32.2	Reney, Fine Gold Pollack. And she's doing PhD work on using robotics
0:36.6	and rehabilitation for people that have had strokes. So how you doing, Renee?
0:40.3	I'm great, thank you. How are you? Good, good. And I know it's laid over there, you know, I'm in the you how are you good and I know it's late over there you know I'm in the US she's in Israel so it's like midnight all that so I appreciate you being on late
0:48.3	Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, so tell me a little bit about what age you get into this field, what interests you in, you know, using robotics to help people that have had strokes, rehab.
0:59.0	Well, I'm a physical therapist, actually I'm quite away from technology I've been practicing
1:06.9	since 2002 and when I was looking for a PhD project, I met a Dr. Shelley Levitzedek.
1:15.0	She's from a Benguion University in the Nagel.
1:19.0	And we started talking about robotics and she had all kind of nice ideas. So I thought that could be really
1:28.7	interesting and as long as they go with the project it gets more and more interesting.
1:34.0	This is something I don't have experience in.
1:37.0	So it was really a great project that I really believe in this field for rehabilitation.
1:43.4	What is the field called?
1:45.4	Is it like robotic assisted rehabilitation or what would you call it?
1:49.2	Well, we actually, the project that I'm working on is the humanoid robotic for rehabilitation, but yes, in general you could get you could call it robotics for rehabilitation or assistive robotics for rehabilitation.
2:03.3	So all right, interesting.
2:04.6	So in your physical therapy work, do you deal with people that have had strokes a lot and do you
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