Saturday, June 29, 2013

Wireless Electronic Glove Helps Improve Motor Skills of Spinal Cord Injury Victims

This should be able to be used for stroke survivors also. Get your therapist to run a clinical trial on it. Instructions for running a trial here.
http://www.medgadget.com/2012/07/wireless-electronic-glove-helps-improve-motor-skills-of-spinal-cord-injury-victims.html

A research team from Georgia Tech has been working on a rehab glove that is already showing effectiveness for people with limited hand motor skills and proprioception due to spinal injury. The electronic Mobile Music Touch (MMT) glove works with a piano and vibrates individual fingers to point to which keys should be pressed.
Using the MMT, people in the study practiced playing the piano for thirty minutes three times a week, and followed up with the glove but without the piano (air piano?), and saw considerable improvement at a time when traditional therapy is usually no longer effective.

More at link.
Wireless Electronic Glove Helps Improve Motor Skills of Spinal Cord Injury Victims

2 comments:

  1. This study would be more impressive if we knew what kind of tests were used to capture "considerable success."

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    1. That is why stroke survivors should be involved in all stroke research.

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