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Report of Adeli Suit Pilot Testing in the United States A research study was conducted by investigators at the University of Minnesota in collaboration with the staff of the Courage Centre, Golden Valley, Minnesota, to evaluate the efficacy of the Adeli Suit on individuals with cerebral palsy or who had suffered a stroke. The Adeli Suit treatment program is very intensive and concentrated over a three week period, but in the long run, may prove to be highly cost-effective. In 1991, a group of clinicians and physiologists developed a novel method for rehabilitative treatment of patients with motor and speech disorders of cerebral origin. The method involves the use of a special device which is built into the suit the patient wears and which normalizes to some extent the trajectory characteristics of the locomotor acts executed by the patient's torso and lower limbs in the presence of an extra load of 15-40 kg imposed by the device in the direction of the long axis of the body. |




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