A data-physics hybrid generative model for patient-specific post-stroke motor rehabilitation using wearable sensor data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14329v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:55:11 GMT
• Title: A data-physics hybrid generative model for patient-specific post-stroke motor rehabilitation using wearable sensor data
• Authors: Yanning Dai, Chenyu Tang, Ruizhi Zhang, Wenyu Yang, Yilan Zhang, Yuhui Wang, Junliang Chen, Xuhang Chen, Ruimou Xie, Yangyue Cao, Qiaoying Li, Jin Cao, Tao Li, Hubin Zhao, Yu Pan, Arokia Nathan, Xin Gao, Peter Smielewski, Shuo Gao,
• Abstract summary: We develop a data-physics hybrid generative framework that reconstructs an individual stroke survivor's neuromuscular control.<n>In 11 stroke survivors, the personalized controllers preserved idiosyncratic gait patterns while improving joint-angle and endpoint fidelity.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Dynamic prediction of locomotor capacity after stroke is crucial for tailoring rehabilitation, yet current assessments provide only static impairment scores and do not indicate whether patients can safely perform specific tasks such as slope walking or stair climbing. Here, we develop a data-physics hybrid generative framework that reconstructs an individual stroke survivor's neuromuscular control from a single 20 m level-ground walking trial and predicts task-conditioned locomotion across rehabilitation scenarios. The system combines wearable-sensor kinematics, a proportional-derivative physics controller, a population Healthy Motion Atlas, and goal-conditioned deep reinforcement learning with behaviour cloning and generative adversarial imitation learning to generate physically plausible, patient-specific gait simulations for slopes and stairs. In 11 stroke survivors, the personalized controllers preserved idiosyncratic gait patterns while improving joint-angle and endpoint fidelity by 4.73% and 12.10%, respectively, and reducing training time to 25.56% relative to a physics-only baseline. In a multicentre pilot involving 21 inpatients, clinicians who used our locomotion predictions to guide task selection and difficulty obtained larger gains in Fugl-Meyer lower-extremity scores over 28 days of standard rehabilitation than control clinicians (mean change 6.0 versus 3.7 points). These findings indicate that our generative, task-predictive framework can augment clinical decision-making in post-stroke gait rehabilitation and provide a template for dynamically personalized motor recovery strategies.

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