Deans' stroke musings: Arduino Based Arm Rehabilitation Assistive Device

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.

What this blog is for:

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.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Arduino Based Arm Rehabilitation Assistive Device

Oh god, monitoring, NOT rehab protocols that lead to recovery.

Arduino Based Arm Rehabilitation Assistive Device

R. Ambar

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, M. S. Ahmad

, A. M. Mohd Ali

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and M. M. Abdul Jamil

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Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Department of Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Modelling and Simulation Research Laboratory

Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Batu Pahat, Johor

Universiti Kuala Lumpur British Malaysian Institute

Corresponding email: aradzi@uthm.edu.my

Abstract: Arm rehabilitation process requires the patients to do repetitive physical exercises without

knowing their improvement rate may result in loss of interest or de-motivated, thus the patients may struggle to complete rehabilitation process. This paper focuses on the design of arm rehabilitation monitoring device utilizing multi-sensors equipped with portable data logging capabilities. The sensors are connected to a patient portable main unit that acquires and elaborates signals and record it in SD card to store detail information regarding subject’s various range of motions. The system enables clinician to do remote monitoring and provide organized sets of data on daily basis every time the user do rehabilitation workout at home.