Deans' stroke musings: Design of a 3D printed hybrid mechanical structure for a hand exoskeleton

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.

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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.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Design of a 3D printed hybrid mechanical structure for a hand exoskeleton

Now if we had functioning stroke leadership we could see about getting this from design to functioning rehab. But we have nothing, NO LEADERSHIP, NO STRATEGY. You're screwed along with your children and grandchildren when they have a stroke.

Design of a 3D printed hybrid mechanical structure for a hand exoskeleton

Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , Volume 6(2)

NARIC Accession Number: J86004. What's this?
ISSN: 2364-5504.
Author(s): Vertongen, Jens ; Kamper, Derek.
Project Number: 90REGE0005.
Publication Year: 2020.
Number of Pages: 5.

Abstract:

Article presents the design of a hybrid, three-dimensional (3D) printed mechanical structure of an assistive hand exoskeleton intended to actuate the fingers of stroke survivors. The design facilitates donning and doffing of the assistive exoskeleton by enabling an approach entirely from the dorsal side of the hand, thereby allowing the fingers to stay flexed. The design criteria, resulting design and the prototype development are described. The initial prototype of the structure, using a hybrid combination of rigid and flexible materials, was lightweight (only 185 grams), while maintaining a high range of motion. Future directions for further improvements and user studies are discussed.
Descriptor Terms: ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY, DAILY LIVING, DEVICES DESIGN, DEXTERITY, LIMBS, ORTHOTICS, ROBOTICS, STROKE.

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Citation: Vertongen, Jens , Kamper, Derek. (2020). Design of a 3D printed hybrid mechanical structure for a hand exoskeleton. Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , 6(2) Retrieved 4/23/2021, from REHABDATA database.