Deans' stroke musings: Interactive glove for mobility training and rehabilitation after stroke

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, July 14, 2016

Interactive glove for mobility training and rehabilitation after stroke

What exactly is your doctor and therapist doing to bring back your hand functions?
I have 144 posts on the hand, 44 posts on glove, and 40 posts on fingers.

1. How about the PossessedHand?

2. Or maybe the Mozart glove?

3. Or the Music glove?

The latest one here:

https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/8886554
Hiob, Mihkel (2016) In Certec report TNS820 20161
Certec - Rehabilitation Engineering and Design

Mark

Abstract: Stroke affects a vast amount of people every year. As a result, many survivors have at least partially lost some of their abilities which are necessary to complete everyday activities. Although rehabilitation can be used to improve those abilities, many survivors claim that conventional methods are demotivating and discouraging.
The aim of this project is to develop and test interactive objects, which would implement activities that are scientifically proven to have good effects for stroke rehabilitation. Different exercises for stroke rehabilitation have been studied and their feasibility of implementation evaluated. Furthermore, previous research and a few existing solutions are also presented in this paper.
This thesis describes creating a glove using an iterative design process, which would implement several hand exercises to control a computer’s mouse and keyboard. The core of the glove is the Arduino Leonardo microcontroller, which is connected to different sensors sewn into the glove. Hand exercises, such as wrist extension and flexion or finger lifting, are used to control the computer in a simple way. For example, to simulate an arrow key keystroke, the user has to apply pressure on his/her fingertips where force sensors are located.
The final prototype was tested by multiple people. Although the user experience and functionality of it could be improved, all participants said that they enjoyed using the device. Hence, using the results from this project as well as from previous research, it can be concluded that interactive objects can be motivational and encouraging for mobility training and stroke rehabilitation. (Less)