Deans' stroke musings: The Development of Finger Rehabilitation Device for 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.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

The Development of Finger Rehabilitation Device for Stroke Patients

Your doctor will need to get this to see if this is a usable protocol for getting your fingers back. And ask why the hell they didn't know about this before you did?
http://www.scientific.net/AMM.393.604

Periodical	Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 393)
Main Theme	Advances in Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering
Edited by	Wahyu Kuntjoro, Aidah Jumahat, Farrahshaida Mohd Salleh and Rosnadiah Bahsan
Pages	604-610
DOI	10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.393.604
Citation	Abdul Hakim Ab Rahim et al., 2013, Applied Mechanics and Materials, 393, 604
Online since	September, 2013
Authors	Abdul Hakim Ab Rahim, Mohd Nor Azmi Bin Ab Patar, Adam Tan Mohd Amin, Jamaluddin Mahmud
Keywords	Acute Stroke, Extension, Finger Rehabilitation, Flexion, Orthosis
Price	US$ 28,-

Abstract

Most stroke patients who have lost the ability to use their fingers do not recover the functions of the fingers in their activity of daily living (ADL). This paper presents a novel approach in finger rehabilitation for acute paralysed stroke survivors. Based on repetitive exercise concept, the device is designed to provide support for fingers to do flexion and extension movements according to the patients range of motion. A conceptual design of the device is proposed after considering the current mechanism and control from similar current devices published and commercialised. A comparison between 4 existing main working mechanisms: (1) Pneumatic Cylinders, (2) Artificial Rubber Muscles, (3) Linkage Mechanism, (4) Cable-Driven Mechanism is also provided in this paper. The key for designing the device is home-based practice, easy to use and affordable. Further investigation and experiments on the proposed: Cable Actuated Finger Exoskeleton (CAFEx) are currently still in progress.