Deans' stroke musings: Designing the Mechanical Parts of a Low-Cost Hand Rehabilitation CPM 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.

Monday, June 11, 2018

Designing the Mechanical Parts of a Low-Cost Hand Rehabilitation CPM Device for Stroke Patients

Have your doctor and stroke hospital follow this up. Or are they going to be incompetent like usual and DO NOTHING?
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-91334-6_9

Husam AlmusawiEmail author
Syeda Adila Afghan
Husi Géza

Husam Almusawi
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Email author
Syeda Adila Afghan
- 1
Husi Géza
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1.Faculty of InformaticsUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary
2.Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and MechatronicsUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary

Conference paper

First Online: 03 June 2018

Part of the Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering book series (LNEE, volume 505)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to introduce hand rehabilitation end-effector-based mechanical design that can be used by the post stroke patients for improving their hand recovery process after the hand injury caused by stroke. The reason behind of creating this mechanical design is to help the therapists in treatment of the hand after the stroke and follow the natural movement of the fingers during the rehabilitation therapy. Stroke victims often lose proper function of at least one hand and fingers, experiencing delays in gripping and releasing ability. This paper is focused on designing the mechanical assemblies of the Continues Passive Motion (CPM) device. The mechanical design has been divided to two assemblies, one discussing the fingers rehabilitation CPM device after the hand injury or stroke, secondly, it presents the mechanism movement and the Degree of Freedom (DOF) of the hand rehabilitation machine. Strict clinical requirements are involved in designing this system like the Mechanical parts must be sterilisable, movable, safe, fingers attachment setting duration, and effective system having low cost profile.

Keywords

Hand rehabilitation system Stroke End-effector based mechanical design CPM Hand recovery

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Cite this paper as:

Almusawi H., Afghan S.A., Géza H. (2019) Designing the Mechanical Parts of a Low-Cost Hand Rehabilitation CPM Device for Stroke Patients. In: Machado J., Soares F., Veiga G. (eds) Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship. HELIX 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 505. Springer, Cham