Friday, May 17, 2013

Development of a haptic keypad for training finger individuation after stroke

Every clinic and hospital dealing with stroke should have this available in the next month.  What is your clinics excuse?  Finger/hand use is the biggest problem for lots of patients. I have no individual use of any finger.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=O18774&phrase=no&rec=120843
NARIC Accession Number: O18774.  What's this? Download article in Full Text .
Author(s): Lord, Thomas J.; Keefe, Diana M.; Li, Yu; Stoykov, Nikolay; Kamper, Derek.
Project Number: H133E070013.
Publication Year: 2011.
Number of Pages: 2.
Abstract: This paper presents a low-cost virtual-reality environment for training finger individuation in stroke survivors with chronic hand impairment. Users play an ergonomic 5-key virtual piano while receiving either assistance or resistance from a pneumatically actuated glove. The level of assistance and the difficulty of the task can be modulated by a therapist.

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