Hand Rehabilitation Robotics on Post-Stroke Motor Recovery

And yet with the total lack of  hand recovery stroke protocols, this helps not one bit.
Hand Rehabilitation Robotics on Post-Stroke Motor Recovery
Zan Yuea, 1   Xue Zhanga,1   Jing Wanga, *
a School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China

Abstract: The recovery of hand function is one of the most challenging topics in stroke rehabilitation. Although the robot-assisted therapy has got some good results in latest decades, the development of hand rehabilitation robotics is left behind. Existing reviews of hand rehabilitation robotics focus either on the mechanical design on designers’ view or on the training paradigms on the clinicians’ view, while these two parts are interconnected and both important for designers and clinicians. In this review, we explore the current literature surrounding hand rehabilitation robots, to help designers make better choices among varied components and thus promoting the application of hand rehabilitation robots. An overview of hand rehabilitation robotics is provided in this paper firstly, to give a general view of the relationship between subjects, rehabilitation theories, hand rehabilitation robots and its evaluation. Secondly, the state of art of hand rehabilitation robotics is introduced in details according to the classification of the hardware system and the training paradigm. As a result, the discussion gives available arguments behind the classification and comprehensive overview of hand rehabilitation robotics.