At Singapore General Hospital (SGH), stroke survivors make up 70% of the ward occupancy in the inpatient rehabilitation unit. Despite this high volume of stroke survivors being seen, only usual care has been provided. The resource-intensive nature of conventional therapy approaches can strain healthcare systems.
With the Australian and New Zealand living clinical guidelines advocating for increased opportunities for stroke survivors to engage in repetitive walking practice, we sought to address this need by integrating Robotic Assisted Gait Rehabilitation (RAGR) within our inpatient rehabilitation unit.
The objectives of the project are to investigate whether:
- we could successfully adopt and sustain the use of RAGR in our hospital setting and
- whether adding RAGR to usual care would result in higher functional mobility gains in stroke survivors.
