Deans' stroke musings: Development of portable elbow joint device for stroke patient rehabilitation

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.

Saturday, June 9, 2018

Development of portable elbow joint device for stroke patient rehabilitation

You might want your doctor to followup this research if you have this problem.

Development of portable elbow joint device for stroke patient rehabilitation

Original Research

Open Access

Development of portable elbow joint device for stroke

patient rehabilitation

L.C.Ku*, M.Ramli, A.M.Z.Abidin, A.A.Nizam Zulkifli, N.I.Manaf, N.A.M.Roshini and M.F.Isa

Department of Electrical Engineering, Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Polytechnic, 40150, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.

*Correspondence:

lcku@psa.edu.my

Abstract

Stroke is a brain disease occurs when blood stops flowing to any part of the brain, damaging brain cells and causes joint stiffness. By doing continuous passive motion (CPM) exercise, the joint stiffness can be reduced and it helps maintaining the range of motion (ROM) of the joint. Portable Elbow Joint Device (PEJD) will provide CPM exercise to patients with Neurological problems such as stroke and traumatic brain injuries that affected the arm. Existing devices of the elbow rehabilitation therapy are large, complex and difficult to be carried anywhere. The upgrading of PEJD focuses on reducing cost, ensuring comfort, and making it portable and light in weight. Besides, PEJD will assist stroke patients in involuntary progressive muscles weakness. A Gear Motor w/Encoder, model No. GB37Y3530-12V-83R is used to move the arm/elbow joint and its angle in controllable speed, timer by using Arduino Nano (microcontroller). The Arduino Nano is a small, complete, and breadboard-friendly board based on the ATmega328 (Arduino Nano 3.0. A rechargeable battery is added on the device to enable the device to operate using DC power supply. The innovation of PEJD will benefit the stroke and elbow injury patients during rehabilitation process as the angle is adjustable, count and speed buttons are also available for such therapy treatment.