Rehabilitation of grasping and forearm pronation/supination with the Haptic Knob

 

Your doctor with any competence at all should see that using this in acute patients while in the hospital would probably get even better improvements than in chronic patients. But I bet your doctor hasn't done one damn thing with this in the past 13 years. 

Do you prefer your  doctor incompetence NOT KNOWING? OR NOT DOING? Because your doctor is incompetent if nothing has been done, in my opinion.

Rehabilitation of grasping and forearm pronation/supination with the Haptic Knob

2009, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
 
Rehabilitation of Grasping and Forearm Pronation/Supinationwith the
 Haptic Knob
Olivier Lambercy, Ludovic Dovat, Hong Yun, Seng Kwee Wee, Christopher Kuah,Karen Chua, Roger Gassert, Theodore Milner, Teo Chee Leong and Etienne Burdet

 Abstract

—This paper investigates robot-assisted rehabilitation after stroke using the Haptic Knob, a 2 degree-of-freedom end-effector based robotic device to train grasping and wrist pronation/supination. Nine chronic stroke subjects trained over a period of 6 weeks, with 3 one-hour sessions of robot-assisted therapy per week, consisting of two exercises requiring active participation promoted by therapeutic games. Results of standard clinical assessments demonstrate the positive effects of robot-assisted therapy with the
 Haptic Knob
. Subjects improved by a mean of 4.3 points in the Fugl-Meyer assessment scale,together with a decrease in hand impairments such as abnormal muscle tone frequently observed in stroke subjects. Significant improvements were also observed in motor function of the upper arm as a result of the robot-assisted therapy, suggesting homogeneous improvement of upper limb function as a result of distal training.