Deans' stroke musings: Robot-aided neurorehabilitation of the upper extremities

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, September 19, 2020

Robot-aided neurorehabilitation of the upper extremities

You'll want to see the pictures and table at the link to see if anything could help you compared to what is in your therapy department. Or how you might be able to construct one.

Robot-aided neurorehabilitation of the upper extremities

R. Riener 1,2
T. Nef 1,2
G. Colombo 2,3
1 Rehabilitation Engineering Group, Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
2 Spinal Cord Injury Center, University Hospital Balgrist, University Zurich, Switzerland
3 Hocoma AG, Volketswil, Switzerland

Abstract

—Task-oriented repetitive movements can improve muscle strength and movement co-ordination in patients with impairments due to neurological lesions.The application of robotics and automation technology can serve to assist, enhance,evaluate and document the rehabilitation of movements. The paper provides an over- view of existing devices that can support movement therapy of the upper extremities in subjects with neurological pathologies. The devices are critically compared with respect to technical function, clinical applicability, and, if they exist, clinical outcomes.