Deans' stroke musings: Developing a wearable ankle rehabilitation robotic device for in-bed acute 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.

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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.

Thursday, August 10, 2017

Developing a wearable ankle rehabilitation robotic device for in-bed acute stroke rehabilitation

Nothing objective is reported here so this is no help at all. We have to get away from subjective measurements and get to objective measures, both in diagnosis and interventions.

Developing a wearable ankle rehabilitation robotic device for in-bed acute stroke rehabilitation

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering , Volume 25(6) , Pgs. 589-596.

NARIC Accession Number: J76517. What's this?
ISSN: 1534-4320.
Author(s): Ren, Yupeng; Wu, Yi-Ning; Yang, Chung-Yong; Xu, Tao; Harvey, Richard L.; Zhang, Li-Qun.
Project Number: 90RE5006 (formerly H133E100007), H133S080076.
Publication Year: 2017.
Number of Pages: 8.
Abstract: Article describes technology developed to deliver intensive passive and active movement training in acute stroke using a wearable ankle robotic device that can be conveniently used in bed. Isometric torque generation mode under real-time feedback is used to guide patients in motor relearning. In the passive stretching mode, the wearable robotic device stretches the ankle throughout its range of motion to the extreme dorsiflexion forcefully and safely. In the active movement training mode, a patient is guided and motivated to actively participate in movement training through game playing. Clinical testing of the wearable robotic device on 10 acute stroke survivors over 12 sessions of feedback-facilitated isometric torque generation, and passive and active movement training indicated that the early in-bed rehabilitation could have facilitated neuroplasticity and helped improve motor control ability.
Descriptor Terms: JOINTS, MOTOR SKILLS, REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTICS, STROKE, THERAPEUTIC TRAINING.

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Citation: Ren, Yupeng, Wu, Yi-Ning, Yang, Chung-Yong, Xu, Tao, Harvey, Richard L., Zhang, Li-Qun. (2017). Developing a wearable ankle rehabilitation robotic device for in-bed acute stroke rehabilitation. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering , 25(6), Pgs. 589-596. Retrieved 8/10/2017, from REHABDATA database.