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.

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Formative Usability Evaluation of WiGlove - A Home-based Rehabilitation Device for Hand and Wrist Therapy after Stroke

Ask your doctor if any of these 21 previous ones are better.

 

Formative Usability Evaluation of WiGlove - A Home-based Rehabilitation Device for Hand and Wrist Therapy after Stroke

HRI '23: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot InteractionMarch 2023 Pages 272–276https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580087
Published:13 March 2023Publication History

ABSTRACT

WiGlove is a passive dynamic orthosis aimed at home-based post-stroke rehabilitation of the hand and wrist. This paper highlights results from WiGlove's formative evaluation as the first step towards its deployment. In this study, twenty healthy participants evaluated the usability and safety of the WiGlove compared to its predecessor, the state-of-the-art SCRIPT Passive Orthosis (SPO). In this within-subject experiment, they performed various tasks such as donning/doffing, adjusting the tension, grasping, etc., with both gloves and rated them using a Likert scale-based questionnaire. The results showed improvements in several aspects of usability and safety. This study provides preliminary evidence of WiGlove's fitness for the next assessment with its intended users, people recovering from stroke with sustained hand and wrist impairment.

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This video presents the results of the usability evaluation of the WiGlove. It is a passive dynamic orthosis designed to assist stroke survivors to perform home-based rehabilitation of their hand and wrist to regain their ability to perform activities of daily life (ADL). It allows hemiparetic stroke survivors to perform flexion exercises while playing interactive games on a tablet and while performing activities of daily life without the assistance of the therapist. This was developed based on the knowledge gained from its predecessor, SCRIPT Passive Orthosis (SPO) and to address its functional and usability limitations. Comparative evaluation by healthy participants found improvements in several aspects of WiGlove's usability such as ease of donning/doffing, unrestricted ab/adduction of the wrist, suitability for ADL, safety and aesthetics compared to SPO.

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