Deans' stroke musings: Development of a Simple Rehabilitation Device for Hemiparetic Stroke Patients to Perform Reaching Exercises in the Transverse Plane

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.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Development of a Simple Rehabilitation Device for Hemiparetic Stroke Patients to Perform Reaching Exercises in the Transverse Plane

I'm sure your therapist can figure out how to duplicate this.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?hl=en&q=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/44072/11/Wasim_Tahir_201403_MHSc_thesis.pdf&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm05nPI8t_GcTCrsdQ2z39pYN2I08Q&oi=scholaralrt

Abstract

Upper-limb hemiparesis caused by stroke can severely limit a survivor's ability to perform activities of daily living. Treatment involves intensive, repetitive therapy that can strain

limited resources.

Rehabilitation devices have been developed to help reduce therapist burden and increase

access to therapy. However, adoption is complicated due to their expense and use of

complex actuators. A rehabilitation tool without actuators was developed to perform reaching

under varying resistance in the transverse plane and measure the reaction force at the handle.

Force measurements from the device were validated through comparison with a standard force

plate. A new method to calculate the center of applied pressure on a spherical handle mounted

on a load cell was developed and validated using 3D modeling.

Finally, a study conducted on healthy subjects demonstrated directional effects on the trajectory length and straightness, while resistance effects were seen for the maximum force, time-to-peak velocity and time-to-peak force.