Deans' stroke musings: Sensing of Surface Texture using Smart Glove for Post Stroke Rehabilitation

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.

Friday, May 16, 2025

Sensing of Surface Texture using Smart Glove for Post Stroke Rehabilitation

Margaret Yekutiel wrote a whole book about this in 2001, 'Sensory Re-Education of the Hand After Stroke'.

Of course, your competent? doctor put together somatosensory protocols from this earlier research a long time ago, right? Oh no, you DON'T have a functioning stroke doctor, do you? Too bad, it's your problem to solve since your stroke hospital board of directors is fucking incompetent in running their hospital! 24 years of incompetence! WOW, that's got to be a record for staying incompetent!

Sensing of Surface Texture using Smart Glove for Post Stroke Rehabilitation

Abstract:

Post-stroke patients need to be rehabilitated in order to gain partly or fully some of the motor facilities that seem to have ceased to function effectively. According to the research, post-stroke deficits in the human ability to palpate and comprehend surface features is the major difficulty a stroke survivor may experience; often they cause harm or accidentally destroy objects due to an incorrect manner of holding them. This research offers a new strategy with the aid of wearable haptic interface in the form of a smart glove that employs an ESP32 microcontroller and force sensors to identify surface texture. Using pattern recognition, we can effectively distinguish between a rough and a smooth surface to adapt to the pressure required to hold any object. This innovation apart from improving safety also gives the patient feedback in the process of rehabilitation. The use of machine learning in particular proves to be more preferable when it comes to texture recognition preventing shortcomings observed in other senor-based approaches.

Published in: 2025 5th International Conference on Trends in Material Science and Inventive Materials (ICTMIM)

Date of Conference: 07-09 April 2025

Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 12 May 2025

ISBN Information:

DOI: 10.1109/ICTMIM65579.2025.10988294

Conference Location: Kanyakumari, India