Deans' stroke musings: E-Glove: An electronic glove with vibro-tactile feedback for wrist rehabilitation of post-stroke patients

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

E-Glove: An electronic glove with vibro-tactile feedback for wrist rehabilitation of post-stroke patients

I wish I could point you to a picture of this but I couldn't find on

e. I did find one reference to haptics and I referred to this here - http://oc1dean.blogspot.com

/2011/03/haptics-and-stroke-rehabilitation.html
The article here:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=6012252

Abstract

Arm paresis is a very common disability among post-stroke survivors. It is characterized by the inability of a person to perform some specific movements in the arm. A Long term Rehabilitation process plays a key role in the recovery of this kind of disabilities, but such treatment might not be easily accessible to people living away from the cities where most of the rehabilitation centers are located. In this paper, we present our interactive rehabilitation system called “E-Glove” that is aimed to help patients with wrist impairments to perform some daily exercises in a joyful and interactive manner. A 2D golf game that could be played with the glove was developed for this purpose.