Deans' stroke musings: An exoskeleton rehabilitation system to train hand function after stroke

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.

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

An exoskeleton rehabilitation system to train hand function after stroke

What is your doctor prescribing for your hand recovery? ANYTHING AT ALL? NO? Then you don't have a functioning stroke doctor! My occupational therapist told me at six weeks that research proved that if you don't have function of the hand at six weeks, it probably won't come back. What she should have said is: 'I've contacted researchers and they are working on solutions.' But she didn't and 17 years later my left hand is still non-functional and I see nothing that will change that because we have NO strategy to solve stroke. All we have are fucking failures of stroke associations doing NOTHING FOR STROKE SURVIVORS!

An exoskeleton rehabilitation system to train hand function after stroke

Hengyu Li

Author Affiliations +

Proceedings Volume 12593, Second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Forum (AIBDF 2022); 1259316 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2672155
Event: 2nd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Forum (AIBDF 2022), 2022, Guangzhou, China

Abstract

Stroke is a leading cause of disability in adults. Notably, about 75% of stroke survivors have upper limb damage, which greatly reduces the quality of life of the patient after recovery. The current routine rehabilitation recommendation is repetitive functional training (exercise-based training) to promote nervous system recovery, and then realize exercise rehabilitation. The cost, efficiency and success rate of traditional treatment methods are unstable due to various factors such as the professional level of therapists, the time required and the workload of therapists. In the case, rehabilitation robot-assisted therapy brings a new direction for the rehabilitation of stroke hemiplegia. In this paper, a new type of hand rehabilitation robot is designed based on the physiological structure of fingers, which is used to assist stroke patients in different stages of finger movement rehabilitation training. It can help the patient to practice grasp adduction and abduction repeatedly, reducing the burden on the patient. Secondly, in this paper, the degrees of freedom and movement of each finger joint are analyzed and calculated. Through modelling and finite element analysis based on Solid works to simulate the stress changes of exoskeleton in different rehabilitation stages, a model suitable for different stages of rehabilitation training is put forward.