Notice that your doctor has not one damn thing to do for your recovery. Everything is up to you, yet I bet you are still being billed by your doctor for no services.
An Investigation of the Current Practice to Support Upper Limb Rehabilitation among Advanced Stroke Survivors
Abstract
Stroke rehabilitation helps one to relearn skills lost when a
stroke affected part of the brain. Stroke rehabilitation programmes
involving technology-assisted physical activities have been employed to
complement the conventional practices. The success of such a program
lies primarily on how well the current practices are understood, and
translated onto the activities planned. This is a challenge to system
designers, dealing with the technology, who may have limited access to
stroke patients. This paper addresses the issue by investigating the
current rehabilitation practices conducted on stroke survivors. The
methods involved interviewing the stroke rehabilitation practitioners,
and observing how therapy sessions were conducted in a local
rehabilitation centre. The study findings revealed that conventional
rather than technology-supported methods are still the dominant approach
used for stroke rehabilitation. Paper and pencil techniques are still
in practice for re-learning how to write among advanced stroke
survivors. Similarly, activities with the early and intermediate groups
at the rehabilitation centre have not been supported by any computer
technology yet. The feedback obtained from the practitioners could be
used as a basis to design suitable technology-assisted programs
especially for advanced stroke survivors in handwriting activities.
Keywords
Stroke Rehabilitation; Handwriting; Mobile Application; Advanced Stroke Survivor
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PDFDOI: http://doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v10.i1.pp%25p
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