Deans' stroke musings: A full upper limb robotic exoskeleton for reaching and grasping rehabilitation triggered by MI-BCI

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.

Friday, October 23, 2020

A full upper limb robotic exoskeleton for reaching and grasping rehabilitation triggered by MI-BCI

I can see no way this expensive piece will ever get into your hospital.

If it is reading brain waves this would never work on people like me who have dead brain in the arm/hand/finger area.

A full upper limb robotic exoskeleton for reaching and grasping rehabilitation triggered by MI-BCI

M. Barsotti ∗,
D. Leonardis ∗,
C. Loconsole ∗,
M. Solazzi ∗,
E. Sotgiu ∗
C. Procopio ∗,
C. Chisari §,
M. Bergamasco ∗,
A. Frisoli ∗

∗ PERCRO Laboratory, TeCIP Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna , Pisa (Italy)
§ Neurorehabilitation Unit, Department of Neurosciences, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa (Italy)

Abstract

—In this paper we propose a full upper limb exoskeleton for motor rehabilitation of reaching, grasping and releasing in post-stroke patients. The presented system takes into account the hand pre-shaping for object affordability and it is driven by patient’s intentional control through a self-paced asynchronous Motor Imagery based Brain Computer Interface (MI-BCI). The developed antropomorphic eight DoFs exoskeleton (two DoFs for the hand, two for the wrist and four for the arm) allows full support of the manipulation activity at the level of single upper limb joint. In this study, we show the feasibility of the proposed system through experimental rehabilitation sessions conducted with three chronic post stroke patients. Results show the potential of the proposed system for being introduced in a rehabilitation protocol.