Muscle Temperature Sensing and Control with a Wearable Device for Hand Rehabilitation of People After Stroke

But you only did partial work, you didn't follow thru to specify the protocols needed to recover the hand. All teachers would give you a failing grade on this. But just maybe you could repurpose this to deliver warm and cold alternatively instead of buckets of water.

Facilitation of Sensory and Motor Recovery by Thermal Intervention for the Hemiplegic Upper Limb in Acute Stroke Patients
Basically 15 seconds warm 30 seconds cool.

The latest here:

Muscle Temperature Sensing and Control with a Wearable Device for Hand Rehabilitation of People After Stroke

Han Li; Jun Zhang; Chaojun Jiang; Qi Liu; Maozeng Zhang; Jingsong Zhou

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  Introduction
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  Wearable Device Design
• III.
  Temperature Control for Cold and Heat Stimulations
• IV.
  Experiments
• V.
  Conclusion

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Abstract:

Muscle spasm affects the hand rehabilitation of the person after stroke. This paper presents the muscle temperature sensing and control with a wearable device. The device mainly consists of three layers, i.e. a Graphite heat dissipation film, a Peltier array, tailor-made radiation fins, from bottom to top. Multiple temperature sensors PT1000 installed between the film and the Peltier pieces are employed for distributed detecting the surface temperature of the muscle which drives the motion of fingers. The Peltier array is used to control the temperature of the muscle with a PID controller for regulating the voltage supplied for the Peltier array. The direction of the current through the Peltier array can be adjusted for cold and heat stimulation of the muscle. By precisely controlling the temperature of the muscle, this device could alleviate the muscle spasm and reduce the edema of hand for better rehabilitation treatment after stroke. The device can also be used for investigating other symptoms alleviation needing cold stimulation or thermotherapy.

Published in: 2020 International Conference on Sensing, Measurement & Data Analytics in the era of Artificial Intelligence (ICSMD)

Date of Conference: 15-17 Oct. 2020