Tell your doctor to follow these design principles and create for you a rehab robot. If they can make it through medical school they can follow this stuff also. You can't wait 30 years so start demanding this stuff now.
ABSTRACT: Task-oriented training is emerging as the dominant and most
effective approach to motor rehabilitation of upper extremity function
after stroke. Here, the authors propose that the task-oriented training
framework provides an evidence-based blueprint for the design of
task-oriented robots for the rehabilitation of upper extremity function
in the form of three design principles: skill acquisition of functional
tasks, active participation training, and individualized adaptive
training. The previous robotic systems that incorporate elements of
task-oriented trainings are then reviewed. Finally, the authors
critically analyze their own attempt to design and test the feasibility
of a TOR robot, ADAPT (Adaptive and Automatic Presentation of Tasks),
which incorporates the three design principles. Because of its
task-oriented training-based design, ADAPT departs from most other
current rehabilitation robotic systems: it presents realistic functional
tasks in which the task goal is constantly adapted, so that the
individual actively performs doable but challenging tasks without
physical assistance. To maximize efficacy for a large clinical
population, the authors propose that future task-oriented robots need to
incorporate yet-to-be developed adaptive task presentation algorithms
that emphasize acquisition of fine motor coordination skills while
minimizing compensatory movements.
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