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The last two decades have seen a remarkable shift in the neurorehabilitation
paradigm. Neuroscientists and clinicians moved away from the perception that the
brain is static and hardwired to a new dynamic understanding that plasticity is a
fundamental property of the adult human brain and might be harnessed to remap or
create new neural pathways. Capitalizing on this innovative understanding, the
authors introduced a paradigm shift in the clinical practice in 1989 when they
initiated the development of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Manus
robot for neurorehabilitation and deployed it in the clinic in 1994 (Krebs et al.
1998). Since then, the authors and others have developed and tested a multitude
of robotic devices for stroke, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, multiple
sclerosis, and Parkinson disease. Here, the authors discuss whether robotic
therapy has achieved a level of maturity to justify its broad adoption in the
clinical realm as a tool for motor recovery.

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