Deans' stroke musings: Development of a whole arm wearable robotic exoskeleton for rehabilitation and to assist upper limb movements

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.

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Development of a whole arm wearable robotic exoskeleton for rehabilitation and to assist upper limb movements

I can't see your hospital buying this. There is nothing wearable about this, it would tip the subject over.

Development of a whole arm wearable robotic exoskeleton for rehabilitation and to assist upper limb movements

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2014
M. H. Rahman
,
M. J. Rahman
,
O. L. Cristobal
,
M. Saad
,
J. P. Kenné
and
P. S. Archambault
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To assist physically disabled people with impaired upper limb function, we have developed a new 7-DOF exoskeleton-type robot named Motion Assistive Robotic-Exoskeleton for Superior Extremity (ETS-MARSE) to ease daily upper limb movements and to provide effective rehabilitation therapy to the superior extremity. The ETS-MARSE comprises a shoulder motion support part, an elbow and forearm motion support part, and a wrist motion support part. It is designed to be worn on the lateral side of the upper limb in order to provide naturalistic movements of the shoulder (vertical and horizontal flexion/extension and internal/external rotation), elbow (flexion/extension), forearm (pronation/supination), and wrist joint (radial/ulnar deviation and flexion/extension). This paper focuses on the modeling, design, development, and control of the ETS-MARSE. Experiments were carried out with healthy male human subjects in whom trajectory tracking in the form of passive rehabilitation exercises (i.e., pre-programmed trajectories recommended by a therapist/clinician) were carried out. Experimental results show that the ETS-MARSE can efficiently perform passive rehabilitation therapy.
Keywords
Robotic exoskeleton
Nonlinear control
Physical disability
Passive rehabilitation
Upper limb impairment

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    Robotica , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 19 - 39
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574714000034[Opens in a new window]
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