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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.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Mechanical Design of an Affordable Adaptive Gravity Balanced Orthosis for Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation

Have your doctor get this paper and see what your therapists can use to recover your upper limb.
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/376692/
Cannella, G., Laila, D.S. and Freeman, C. T. (2015) Mechanical Design of an Affordable Adaptive Gravity Balanced Orthosis for Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation. Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, An International Journal (In Press).

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Description/Abstract

In this paper a novel design of non-powered orthosis for stroke rehabilitation is reported. Designed for home based use, it is the first low-cost, passive design to incorporate an assistive level that can be adaptively varied within a closed-loop control scheme. This allows the device to be integrated with a dual robotic and electrical stimulation control scheme, to thereby enable full exploitation of the motor relearning principles which underpin both robotic therapy and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) based stroke rehabilitation. This embeds the potential for more effective treatment. The paper focuses on the mechanical design of the non-powered orthosis, providing detailed design and dynamics analysis and evaluation.
Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and the Environment > Engineering Sciences > Electro-Mechanical Research Group
Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering > Electronics and Computer Science > EEE
ePrint ID: 376692
Date Deposited: 30 Apr 2015 16:00
Last Modified: 30 Apr 2015 16:00
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/376692
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