It has been 13 years, what the fuck has your stroke hospital done with this?
Do you prefer your hospital incompetence NOT KNOWING? OR NOT DOING?
Their reasons for doing nothing? There is absolutely no excuse for doing nothing. They should all be keel-hauled.
Laziness? Incompetence? Or just don't care? No leadership? No strategy? Not my job?
The latest here:
Date of Publication: 20 August 2007
Abstract:In
1991, a novel robot named MIT-MANUS was introduced as a test bed to
study the potential of using robots to assist in and quantify the
neurorehabilitation of motor function. It introduced a new modality of
therapy, offering a highly backdrivable experience with a soft and
stable feel for the user. MIT-MANUS proved an excellent fit for shoulder
and elbow rehabilitation in stroke patients, showing a reduction of
impairment in clinical trials with well over 300 stroke patients. The
greatest impairment reduction was observed in the group of muscles
exercised. This suggests a need for additional robots to rehabilitate
other target areas of the body. Previous work has expanded the planar
MIT-MANUS to include an antigravity robot for shoulder and elbow, and a
wrist robot. In this paper we present the ldquomissing linkrdquo: a hand
robot. It consists of a single-degree-of-freedom (DOF) mechanism in a
novel statorless configuration, which enables rehabilitation of
grasping. The system uses the kinematic configuration of a double crank
and slider where the members are linked to stator and rotor; a free base
motor, i.e., a motor having two rotors that are free to rotate instead
of a fixed stator and a single rotatable rotor (dual-rotor statorless
motor). A cylindrical structure, made of six panels and driven by the
relative rotation of the rotors, is able to increase its radius
linearly, moving or guiding the hand of the patients during grasping.
This module completes our development of robots for the upper extremity,
yielding for the first time a whole-arm rehabilitation experience. In
this paper, we discuss in detail the design and characterization of the
device.
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