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, September 28, 2020

A HERO for Stroke Patients: a new hand exoskeleton 3D printed on textiles for rehabilitation

This sounds great. Where is the protocol for building it AND the protocol for recovery of your hand? Your hospital should have it available in one month. If not, have the board of directors fired.

A HERO for Stroke Patients: a new handexoskeleton 3D printed on textiles for rehabilitation

Rommel Soares de Araujo*
, Camille Reategui Silva, Severino Peixoto Nunes Netto, Edgard Morya and
Fabricio Lima Brasil

Abstract

Background: 
Stroke survivors can be affected by motor deficits in the hand.
Robotic equipment associated with brain-machine interfaces (BMI) may aid the
motor rehabilitation of these patients. BMIs involving orthotic control by motor
imagery practices have been successful in restoring stroke patients’ movements.
However, there is still little acceptance of the robotic devices available, either by
patients and clinicians, mainly because of the high costs involved. Motivated by
this context, the present work aims to design and construct the Hand
Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation Objectives (HERO) to recover extension and
flexion movements of the fingers.
Methods: 
A 3D printing technique in association with textiles was used to
produce a lightweight and wearable device. 3D-printed actuators have also been
designed to reduce equipment costs. The actuator transforms the torque of DC
motors into linear force transmitted by Bowden cables to move the fingers
passively. The exoskeleton was controlled by neuroelectric signal —
electroencephalography (EEG). Concept tests were performed to evaluate control
performance. A healthy volunteer was submitted to a training block with the
exoskeleton, according to the Graz-BCI protocol. Ergonomy was evaluated with a
2D tracking software.
Results: 
The outcome of the applied manufacturing technique was aesthetically
pleasing. HERO’s glove can be compared to ordinary clothing. The weight over
the hand was around 102 g. The volunteer(Was this a stroke survivor?) was able to control the exoskeleton
with 91.5% accuracy.
Conclusions: 
HERO’s project resulted in a lightweight, simple, portable,
ergonomic, and low-cost device. Its use is not restricted to a clinical setting.
Thus, users will be able to execute motor training with the HERO at hospitals,
rehabilitation clinics, and home, increasing the rehabilitation intervention time.
This may favor motor rehabilitation and improve the life quality of stroke
survivors.
 

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