11 years and since we have fucking failures of stroke associations that can't even create a database of all stroke research and protocols survivors will never figure out what happened when trials occurred with stroke persons.
Bimanual Haptic-desktop platform for upper-limb post-stroke rehabilitation:Practical trials
Published 2009
Siqiao Li, A. Frisoli, C.A. Avizzano, M. Bergamasco Perceptual Robotics Laboratory, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Bimanual rehabilitation has been pointed out as an effective way for the rehabilitation of patients with poor motor impairment of one upper extremity because of the bimanual nature of the therapy, i.e. the natural way to initiate and control the therapy and the mechanical-neurological coordination between two hands in human activities of daily living [1]. This study presents the development of a new bimanual rehabilitation system for the rehabilitation of upper–limb post stroke patients. The bimanual haptic desktop system (BHDS) is an integrated system which merges haptic functionalities and Video Display Terminal (VDT) systems into standalone application, shown in Fig. 1. The hardware integration has been designed to show ergonomic features and provide high-quality performance of human-computer-interaction (HCI) [2].
Two basic exercises, based on tracking task and lifting task, were carried out for the recovery of basic arm motion–coordination skills and steadiness of patients’ upper-limb. Secondly a catching task, was developed to compare online the performance of healthy upper-limb with impaired ones wherein hand-eye coordination exercise of the patient is included. To this end, the proposed exercises provide patients the potential methods to train their post–stroke upper-limbs malfunctions while reporting the quantitative parameters obtained to evaluate the improvement of patients recovery. Experimental results of a preliminary evaluation on healthy subjects are reported and discussed to visualize in near future a pilot medical trials of the system on impaired people.
Figure 2 Example of a robot assisted bimanual task. In the left panel it is shown the box, that is asked to be picked up with two hands and lifted up. In the right panel, the blue line is the grasping force, while the red line is the box position. Siqiao Li, A. Frisoli, C.A. Avizzano, M. Bergamasco Perceptual Robotics Laboratory, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Bimanual rehabilitation has been pointed out as an effective way for the rehabilitation of patients with poor motor impairment of one upper extremity because of the bimanual nature of the therapy, i.e. the natural way to initiate and control the therapy and the mechanical-neurological coordination between two hands in human activities of daily living [1]. This study presents the development of a new bimanual rehabilitation system for the rehabilitation of upper–limb post stroke patients. The bimanual haptic desktop system (BHDS) is an integrated system which merges haptic functionalities and Video Display Terminal (VDT) systems into standalone application, shown in Fig. 1. The hardware integration has been designed to show ergonomic features and provide high-quality performance of human-computer-interaction (HCI) [2].
Two basic exercises, based on tracking task and lifting task, were carried out for the recovery of basic arm motion–coordination skills and steadiness of patients’ upper-limb. Secondly a catching task, was developed to compare online the performance of healthy upper-limb with impaired ones wherein hand-eye coordination exercise of the patient is included. To this end, the proposed exercises provide patients the potential methods to train their post–stroke upper-limbs malfunctions while reporting the quantitative parameters obtained to evaluate the improvement of patients recovery. Experimental results of a preliminary evaluation on healthy subjects are reported and discussed to visualize in near future a pilot medical trials of the system on impaired people.
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| Figure 1 The BHDS System while used by an healthy subject |
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