Deans' stroke musings: Novel integrative rehabilitation system for the upper extremity: Design and usability evaluation

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.

Thursday, June 23, 2022

Novel integrative rehabilitation system for the upper extremity: Design and usability evaluation

You have got to be fucking kidding me! What was the point of testing this on healthy subjects? Waste of time and money. You're fired!

Novel integrative rehabilitation system for the upper extremity: Design and usability evaluation

Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering , Volume 8

NARIC Accession Number: J88759. What's this?
ISSN: 2055-6683.
Author(s): Burdea, Grigore; Kim, Nam; Polistico, Kevin; Kadaru, Ashwin; Roll, Doru; Grampurohit, Namrata.
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 17.

Abstract:

Article describes the design and usability testing of a novel virtual rehabilitation system for bimanual training of gravity-supported arms, pronation/supination, grasp strengthening, and finger extension. The BrightArm Compact (BAC) rehabilitation system, comprising a robotic rehabilitation table, therapeutic game controllers, and adaptive rehabilitation games, was developed. The rehabilitation table lifted/lowered and tilted up/down to modulate gravity loading. Arms movement was measured simultaneously, allowing bilateral training. Therapeutic games adapted through a baseline process. Four healthy adults each performed four usability evaluation sessions and provided feedback using the USE questionnaire and custom questions. Participant’s game play performance was sampled and analyzed, and system modifications made between sessions. Participants played four sessions of about 50 minutes each, with training difficulty gradually increasing. The participants averaged a total of 6,300 arm repetitions, 2,200 grasp counts, and 2,100 finger extensions when adding counts for each upper extremity. The USE questionnaire data averaged 5.1 out of 7 rating, indicative of usefulness, ease of use, ease of learning, and satisfaction with the system. Subjective feedback on the custom evaluation form was 84 percent favorable. The novel BAC system was well-accepted, induced high repetition counts, and the usability study helped optimize it and achieve satisfaction. Future studies include examining effectiveness of the novel system when training acute post-stroke patients.
Descriptor Terms: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, LIMBS, MOTOR SKILLS, REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY.

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Citation: Burdea, Grigore, Kim, Nam, Polistico, Kevin, Kadaru, Ashwin, Roll, Doru, Grampurohit, Namrata. (2021). Novel integrative rehabilitation system for the upper extremity: Design and usability evaluation. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering , 8 Retrieved 6/23/2022, from REHABDATA database.