Deans' stroke musings: USC’s Stroke Rehab Robot Gently Prods PatientsTo Do Exercises (video)

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, April 12, 2012

USC’s Stroke Rehab Robot Gently Prods PatientsTo Do Exercises (video)

Not sure if I could handle a cheerful robot.
http://medgadget.com/2012/04/uscs-stroke-rehab-robot-gently-prods-patientsto-do-exercises-video.html
Statistics show that there are 800,000 new stroke victims every year, a figure that is expected to double over the next 20 years. How will we effectively be able to care for these patients?

That’s a question that researchers from the University of Southern California are addressing in a short video piece called “Wanted: Coach. Companion. Robot.” The video highlights a future day in the life of a robot they are developing to help stroke victims. Tthough not named, the robot looks very much like a Bandit 2 model. The device uses multiple imaging modalities, as well as a wrist-worn galvanic sensor on the patient to track a person’s vital statistics and the position of the limb being rehabilitated. What’s also somewhat unique about the USC robot is the personality it is given. Rather than merely being a speaking machine, the USC robot interacts almost like an early version of C-3PO, gently responding based on the person’s mood. Not only will the robot give you a warm greeting, but during your rehab exercises it’ll give you not-so-subtle feedback on your effort (“I may be a robot, but I am not blind”). According to the video below, the robot apparently also has the uncanny ability to change from a cardinal USC hoodie to full workout gear!