Upper limbs cranking for post-stroke rehabilitation: a pilot study on healthy subjects

It would make much more sense to get arm crank wheelchairs. That would be functional and you would recover the arms like you do the legs because of forced use.

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Upper limbs cranking for post-stroke rehabilitation: a pilot study on healthy subjects

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Elisa Digo ; Stefano Pastorelli ; Taian Vieira ; Alberto Botter ; Laura Gastaldi

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Since one of the major consequences of stroke is hemiparesis, the rehabilitation of upper limbs is necessary to improve the quality of life. Arm cranking gesture represents an alternative rehabilitation tool, especially if accompanied by a biofeedback involving and motivating patients. The aim of this pilot study was twofold: (1) to evaluate the effect of a visual and virtual biofeedback on arm cranking gesture and (2) to estimate the duration of pull and push phases of the crank cycle. Nine healthy and young subjects were involved in the test and were asked to perform the arm cranking gesture in different conditions. A stereophotogrammetric system was adopted to create a virtual, visual and real time biofeedback of cadence, to measure the real cadence of participants and to estimate push and pull phases durations. Results showed that the biofeedback helped subjects to follow an externally imposed cadence. Furthermore, the pull phase resulted to be slightly longer than the push one, although the angular amplitude of the two phases suggested they were the same.

Published in: 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA)

Date of Conference: 1 June-1 July 2020

Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 10 July 2020

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DOI: 10.1109/MeMeA49120.2020.9137282

Publisher: IEEE

Conference Location: Bari, Italy, Italy