Deans' stroke musings: The “Beam-Me-In Strategy” – remote haptic therapist-patient interaction with two exoskeletons for stroke therapy

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.

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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.

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

The “Beam-Me-In Strategy” – remote haptic therapist-patient interaction with two exoskeletons for stroke therapy

I can't see hospitals purchasing this. If all this is used for is evaluation then useless.

The “Beam-Me-In Strategy” – remote haptic therapist-patient interaction with two exoskeletons for stroke therapy

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation , Volume 16(85)

NARIC Accession Number: J81433. What's this?
ISSN: 1743-0003.
Author(s): Baur, Kilian; Rohrbach, Nina; Hermsdörfer, Joachim; Riener, Robert; Klamroth-Marganska, Verena.
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 15.
Abstract: Study evaluated a robot-assisted telerehabilitation system that allows for haptic interaction between therapist and patient over distance. It consists of two arm therapy robots. Attached to one robot, the therapists can feel in their own arm the limitations of the patient’s arm, which is attached to the other robot. Fifteen physical and occupational therapists tested this strategy, named “Beam-Me-In”, while using an exoskeleton robot connected to a second exoskeleton robot in the same room used by the study experimenter. Furthermore, the therapists assessed the level of impairment of recorded and simulated arm movements. They quantified four typical impairments of stroke patients: reduced range of motion (active and passive), resistance to passive movement, a lack of ability to fractionate a movement, and disturbed quality of movement. Therapists rated the Beam-Me-In strategy as a very useful medium to evaluate a patient’s progress over time. The passive range of motion of the elbow joint was assessed with a mean absolute error of 4.9 degrees. The active range of motion of the elbow was assessed with a mean absolute error of 4.9 degrees. The resistance to passive movement and the lack of ability to fractionate a movement was assessed with an inter-rater reliability of 0.930 and 0.948, respectively. The Beam-Me-In strategy is a promising approach to complement robot-assisted movement training. It can serve as a platform to assess and identify abnormal movement patterns in patients. This is the first application of remote three-dimensional haptic assessment applied to telerehabilitation.
Descriptor Terms: BODY MOVEMENT, LIMBS, MOTOR SKILLS, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, PHYSICAL THERAPY, REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTICS, SENSORY AIDS, STROKE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS.

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Citation: Baur, Kilian, Rohrbach, Nina, Hermsdörfer, Joachim, Riener, Robert, Klamroth-Marganska, Verena. (2019). The “Beam-Me-In Strategy” – remote haptic therapist-patient interaction with two exoskeletons for stroke therapy. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation , 16(85) Retrieved 8/20/2019, from REHABDATA database.