Deans' stroke musings: Soft Robots that Mimic Human Muscles Can Help 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.

Monday, November 14, 2016

Soft Robots that Mimic Human Muscles Can Help Stroke

They even talk about using it for strokes. It will never get into your stroke hospital because your hospital will never find out about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-u7tudZAR4
An EPFL team is developing soft, flexible and reconfigurable robots. Air-actuated, they behave like human muscles and may be used in physical rehabilitation. They are made of low-cost materials and could easily be produced on a large scale.

Soft Robots that Mimic Human Muscles Can Help Stroke

A team from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) technological university in Switzerland announced Wednesday that it has created soft, flexible robots that can mimic human muscles.
The robots work by using “muscle-like actuators” and are made from soft materials like silicon and rubber. Eventually, the EPFL researchers hope to develop “adaptable robots that are capable of navigating around in cramped, hostile environments” which can “withstand squeezing and crushing.” For now, though, the team is focused on improving the tech.
EPFL says these robots could be used to handle fragile items, improve home care, and help keep people safe by surrounding them with a soft-but-durable exoskeleton. Similar tech is currently being used in a belt that can help stroke victims by compensating for muscular deficiencies.