Deans' stroke musings: A Simple Robotic System for Neurorehabilitation

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.

Saturday, October 17, 2020

A Simple Robotic System for Neurorehabilitation

WHO DO YOU NEED TO FIRE IF YOUR STROKE HOSPITAL DOESN'T HAVE THE BRAINS TO IMPLEMENT THIS SIMPLE SYSTEM IN 15 YEARS?

Or are you giving them a pass because they supposedly are medically trained?

A Simple Robotic System for Neurorehabilitation

2005, Autonomous Robots

S. MICERA ∗
AND M.C. CARROZZA
ARTS Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
micera@sssup.it
E. GUGLIELMELLI
Campus Biomedico University, Rome, Italy
G. CAPPIELLO, F. ZACCONE AND C. FRESCHI
ARTS Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
R. COLOMBO AND A. MAZZONE
IRCCS Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, Service of Bioengineering, Veruno (NO), Italy
C. DELCONTE AND F. PISANO
Division of Neurology, Veruno (NO), Italy
G. MINUCO
Service of Bioengineering, Veruno (NO), Italy
P. DARIO
ARTS Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

Abstract.

In the recent past, several researchers have shown that important variables in relearning motor skills and in changing the underlying neural architecture after stroke are the quantity, duration, content, and intensity of training sessions. Unfortunately, when traditional therapy is provided in a hospital or rehabilitation center, the patient is usually seen for few hours a week. Robot-mediated therapies could improve this situation but even if interesting results have been achieved by several groups, the use of robot-mediated therapy has not become very common in clinical practice. This is due to many different reasons (e.g., the “technophobia” of some clinicians, the need for more extensive clinical trials) but one of the more important is the cost and the complexity of these devices which make them difﬁcult to be purchased and used in all the clinical centers.The aim of this work was to verify the possibility of improving motor recovery of hemiparetic subjects by using a simple mechatronic system. To achieve this goal, our system(named“MEchatronic system for MOtor recovery after Stroke” (MEMOS)) has been designed with the aim of using mainly “off-the-shelf products” with only few parts simply manufactured with standard technology, when commercial parts were not available. Moreover, the prototype has been developed taking into account the requirements related to the clinical applicability such as robustness and safety.
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