Mechanical Design of an Affordable Adaptive Gravity Balanced Orthosis for Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation

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Cannella, G., Laila, D.S. and Freeman, C. T. (2015) Mechanical Design of an Affordable Adaptive Gravity Balanced Orthosis for Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation. Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, An International Journal (In Press).

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Description/Abstract

In this paper a novel design of non-powered orthosis for stroke rehabilitation is reported. Designed for home based use, it is the first low-cost, passive design to incorporate an assistive level that can be adaptively varied within a closed-loop control scheme. This allows the device to be integrated with a dual robotic and electrical stimulation control scheme, to thereby enable full exploitation of the motor relearning principles which underpin both robotic therapy and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) based stroke rehabilitation. This embeds the potential for more effective treatment. The paper focuses on the mechanical design of the non-powered orthosis, providing detailed design and dynamics analysis and evaluation.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering and the Environment > Engineering Sciences > Electro-Mechanical Research Group Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering > Electronics and Computer Science > EEE
ePrint ID:	376692
Date Deposited:	30 Apr 2015 16:00
Last Modified:	30 Apr 2015 16:00
Further Information:	Google Scholar
URI:	http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/376692