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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.

Thursday, October 14, 2021

ReGear: an upper and lower limb simultaneous system for stroke rehabilitation

 

I can't find any pictures or video on this so no clue how it might work.

ReGear: an upper and lower limb simultaneous system for stroke rehabilitation

Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering volume 43, Article number: 488 (2021) Cite this article

Abstract

Rehabilitation robotics is a rapidly advancing field that improves the treatment methods for several neurological injuries, including motor recovery for post-stroke patients. However, most of the structures consider upper and lower limb exercises separated. This paper concerns the development of a novel robotics structure called “ReGear” designed for a combined process of providing rehabilitation and helping post-stroke patients perform simple training sessions of both paretic limbs, simultaneously. The main goals of this structure are to assist motor recovery and improve the coordination of both affected limbs. Initially, a mathematical model of the proposed device is developed based on the geometrical relations and desired angular motion. Therefore, a tridimensional model is constructed and applied to computational simulations. Afterward, a prototype is built, including a microcontroller and a DC motor coupled with a rotary encoder. An assist-as-needed control design is applied to the system, which is connected to an electronic game developed to enhance the experience during the training sessions. The clinical trial tests were performed on healthy and post-stroke subjects, applying surface electromyography to correlate the muscular activity of both limbs with the system and game response. The experimental results demonstrate good responsiveness of ReGear and preliminary evidence that it can provide active–passive motion training for patients recovering from a stroke.

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