Program Brings Rehabilitation Help to Stroke Patients' Homes

Program brings rehabilitation help to stroke patients' homes

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Soon after Ruth McIntyre had a stroke, she had a team of therapists helping her navigate the stairs to her basement bedroom and strengthening her left hand so she could eventually water flowers in her garden. A relatively new program through Alberta …
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Yoga Might Help With Stroke Rehab

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Schmid noted that rehabilitation therapy for stroke patients typically ends after six months but brain changes and physical improvements can continue to occur after six months. "The problem is the health care system is not necessarily willing to pay …
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New technology helping brain injury and stroke patients

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… suffered a second stroke during open heart surgery. "After they did the quadruple bypass, I could not move this hand at all on my left side," Curry said. Now Curry is working with therapists at Wesley Rehabilitation Hospital in West Wichita. Two …
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The ExoHand from Festo — an active manual orthosis with sensitive fingers – The ExoHand from Festo is an exoskeleton that can be worn like a glove. The fingers can be actively moved and their strength amplified; the operator’s hand movements are registered and transmitted to the robotic hand in real time. Mehr Informationen: www.festo.com The objectives are to enhance the strength and endurance of the human hand, to extend humans’ scope of action and to secure them an independent lifestyle even at an advanced age. New scope for interaction between humans and machines The ExoHand could provide assistance in the form of force amplification in connection with monotonous and strenuous activities in industrial assembly, for example, or in remote manipulation in hazardous environments: with force feedback, the human operator feels what the robot grasps and can thus grip and manipulate objects from a safe distance without having to touch them. Due to the yielding capacity of its pneumatic components, the ExoHand also offers potential in the field of service robotics. In the rehabilitation of stroke patients, it could already be used today as an active manual orthosis. The exoskeleton supports the human hand from the outside and reproduces the physiological degrees of freedom — the scope of movement resulting from the geometry of the joints. Eight double-acting pneumatic actuators move the fingers so that they can be opened and closed. For this purpose, non-linear control algorithms are implemented on a CoDeSys-compliant controller, which thus allows …