Good luck trying to get this into your stroke department.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=160069&CultureCode=en
A team from the Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR, UPM-CSIC)
has developed a robotic exoskeleton that performs more efficiently
rehabilitation therapies of patients with shoulder injuries. By using
strength and motion sensors, the system assesses the degree of an injury
and its evolution as the treatment progresses.
Besides, the use of this system is simple and easily adaptable to any
patient. These features represent not only a great advantage for
patients, who recover faster, but also a big help for healthcare
providers that treat these injuries every day.
Human shoulder is one of the most complex joints in the human body
due to its wide variety of motions. The interrelationship among its
parts makes rehabilitation complex after an injury if compared to other
skeletal-muscle injuries.
Rehabilitation therapies performed by intelligent robotic systems
have been shown to reduce patients' recovery time. However, there are
very few robotic systems for recovery of shoulder injuries. In this
context, researchers from CAR have developed a robotic exoskeleton that,
apart from lessening the recovery time of an injury, assesses and
registers the progress of the entire rehabilitation process.
According to the main researcher, Cecilia García Cena, simulating the
skeletal system is not enough to develop this exoskeleton, it is needed
to incorporate both the kinematics and dynamics of a complete model
that takes into account the skeletal system, muscles, tendons and
ligaments. All these elements are included in the new intelligent
robotic system.
The exoskeleton developed by researchers is inexpensive, easy to use
and adaptable to any patient. This system can help to relieve saturated
rehabilitation units, with the consequent saving in the healthcare
system.
http://www.upm.es/internacional/UPM/UPM_Channel/News/c8767d6ee2e52510VgnVCM10000009c7648aRCRD
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