Deans' stroke musings: Robotic hand system design for mirror therapy 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.

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Robotic hand system design for mirror therapy rehabilitation after stroke

Bad, bad research. No comparison to just plain mirror therapy. Why use robotics when no stroke patient will ever be able to use it outside of a hospital? Or do you really think that enough repetitions can occur during therapy to recover? If so, what is the quantity needed?

Robotic hand system design for mirror therapy rehabilitation after stroke

Shu-Wei Pu
Jen-Yuan Chang

Shu-Wei Pu
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Jen-Yuan Chang
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1.Department of Power Mechanical EngineeringNational Tsing Hua UniversityHsinchuTaiwan

Technical Paper

First Online: 16 May 2019

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Abstract

This paper developed a robotics-assisted device for the stroke patients to perform the hand rehabilitation. Not only the system can perform passive range of motion exercises for impaired hand, but also can perform mirror therapy for pinching and hand grasping motions under the guidance of the posture sensing glove worn on patient’s functional hand. Moreover, the framework and operation flow of the developed system has been and delineated in this paper. Practical results with human subjects are shown in this paper to examine the usability of proposed system, trial experiment of advance mirror therapy that use the proposed system to interact with realities is also presented in this paper.

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Acknowledgements

The authors greatly appreciate the supports from Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan Grant (MOST 105-2218-E-007-007) for the work discussed herein.