Deans' stroke musings: NEUROExos: A Powered Elbow Exoskeletonfor Physical Rehabilitation

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.

Sunday, September 20, 2020

NEUROExos: A Powered Elbow Exoskeletonfor Physical Rehabilitation

You really think your hospital is going to afford this? They can't even get you music players to help with rehab costing $18.00 or tell you how to get a music app on your phone.

music (94 posts back to March 2011)
music therapy (53 posts back to October 2014)
musical training (13 posts back to June 2014)

THAT IS HOW INCOMPETENT YOUR STROKE HOSPITAL IS.

NEUROExos: A Powered Elbow Exoskeletonfor Physical Rehabilitation

Nicola Vitiello , Member, IEEE
, Tommaso Lenzi, Student Member, IEEE
, Stefano Roccella,Stefano Marco Maria De Rossi, Student Member, IEEE
, Emanuele Cattin, Francesco Giovacchini,Fabrizio Vecchi, Member, IEEE
, and Maria Chiara Carrozza, Member, IEEE

Abstract

—This paper presents the design and experimental testing of the robotic elbow exoskeleton NEUROBOTICS Elbow Exoskeleton (NEUROExos). The design of NEUROExos focused on three solutions that enable its use for post stroke physical rehabilitation. First, double-shelled links allow an ergonomic physical human–robot interface and, consequently, a comfortable interaction. Second, a four-degree-of-freedom passive mechanism, em-bedded in the link, allows the user’s elbow and robot axes to beconstantly aligned during movement. The robot axis can passively rotate on the frontal and horizontal planes 30^◦ and 40^◦, respectively, and translate on the horizontal plane 30 mm. Finally, a variable impedance antagonistic actuation system allows NEUROExos to be controlled with two alternative strategies: independent con-trol of the joint position and stiffness, for robot-in-charge rehabilitation mode, and near-zero impedance torque control, for patient-in-charge rehabilitation mode. In robot-in-charge mode, the passive joint stiffness can be changed in the range of 24–56 N·m/rad. Inpatient in charge mode, NEUROExos output impedance ranges from 1 N·m/rad, for 0.3 Hz motion, to 10 N·m/rad, for 3.2 Hzmotion.