Deans' stroke musings: DESIGN, FABRICATION AND CONTROL OF UPPER LIMB REHABILITATION ROBOT PROTOTYPE 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.

Saturday, September 1, 2018

DESIGN, FABRICATION AND CONTROL OF UPPER LIMB REHABILITATION ROBOT PROTOTYPE FOR STROKE PATIENTS

12 pages for you to decipher any applicability.
http://journal.utem.edu.my/index.php/jamt/article/viewFile/4287/3394
S. Mohamaddan 1 , J. Annisa 1 , A.S.Z. Abidin 1 , M.S. Jamaludin 1 , M.F. Ashari 1 and H. Helmy 2 1 Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing , Faculty of Enginering, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak , 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia 2 Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak , 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, M alaysia Corresponding Author’s Email: 1 mshahrol@unimas. my Article History: Received 5 August 2017; Revised 26 October 2017; Accepted 28 December 2017
ABSTRACT: Stroke is one of the prominent causes of disability in the world. In order to have chances for recovery, the stroke patients need repetitive and consistent rehabilitation activities or treatment. However, the increasing number of stroke patients with limited number of therapist and tra nsportation problem for rural patients limits the possibility to have better treatment. This paper discussed the application of robotics system to support the rehabilitation activities focusing on the upper limb area of the body. The result shows two designs of upper limb rehabilitation device were fabricated and controlled. Both prototypes were emphasized on the compact, transportable/portable and simple operation concept. In order to evaluate the prototype, real patient test or experiment needs to be conducted.