Deans' stroke musings: Rehabotics: A Comprehensive Rehabilitation Platform for Post-Stroke Spasticity, Incorporating a Soft Glove, a Robotic Exoskeleton Hand and Augmented Reality Serious Games

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.

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Rehabotics: A Comprehensive Rehabilitation Platform for Post-Stroke Spasticity, Incorporating a Soft Glove, a Robotic Exoskeleton Hand and Augmented Reality Serious Games

So it doesn't work! You say NOTHING about getting survivors actually recovered using this. WILL YOU BLITHERING IDIOTS TRY TO SOLVE STROKE? Just maybe before you are the 1 in 4 per WHO that has a stroke!

Rehabotics: A Comprehensive Rehabilitation Platform for Post-Stroke Spasticity, Incorporating a Soft Glove, a Robotic Exoskeleton Hand and Augmented Reality Serious Games

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Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, 9, Herοon Polytechniou Str., Zografou, 15773 Athens, Greece

Biomechanics Laboratory, Physiotherapy Department, University of the Peloponnese, 23100 Sparta, Greece

Physioloft, Physiotherapy Center, 14562 Kifisia, Greece

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CNA Lab, Department of Informatics, Telecommunications University of Peloponnese, 22100 Tripoli, Greece

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Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece

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Biomedical Research Institute, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), 70013 Heraklion, Greece

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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Presented at the Advances in Biomedical Sciences, Engineering and Technology (ABSET) Conference, Athens, Greece, 10–11 June 2023.

Eng. Proc. 2023, 50(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2023050002

Published: 27 October 2023

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Advances in Biomedical Sciences, Engineering and Technology (ABSET) Conference)

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Abstract

Spasticity following a stroke often leads to severe motor impairments, necessitating comprehensive and personalized rehabilitation protocols. This paper presents Rehabotics, an innovative rehabilitation platform incorporating a multi-component design for the rehabilitation of patients with post-stroke spasticity in the upper limbs. This system incorporates a sensor-equipped soft glove, a robotic exoskeleton hand, and an augmented reality (AR) platform with serious games of varying difficulties for adaptive therapy personalization. The soft glove collects data regarding hand movements and force exertion levels when the patient touches an object. In conjunction with a web camera, this enables real-time physical therapy using AR serious games, thus targeting specific motor skills. The exoskeleton hand, facilitated by servomotors, assists patients in hand movements, specifically aiding in overcoming the challenge of hand opening. The proposed system utilizes the data collected and (in combination with the clinical measurements) provides personalized and refined rehabilitation plans and targeted therapy to the affected hand. A pilot study of Rehabotics was conducted with a sample of 14 stroke patients. This novel system promises to enhance patient engagement and outcomes in post-stroke spasticity rehabilitation by providing a personalized, adaptive, and engaging therapy experience.