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A short overview of upper limb rehabilitation devices
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Macovei, S. Doroftei, I. |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Description | Journal: Iop Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering As some studies show, the number of people over 65 years old increases constantly, leading to the need of solution to provide services regarding patient mobility. Diseases, accidents and neurologic problems affect hundreds of people every day, causing pain and lost of motor functions. The ability of using the upper limb is indispensable for a human being in everyday activities, making easy tasks like drinking a glass of water a real challenge. We can agree that physiotherapy promotes recovery, but not at an optimal level, due to limited financial and human resources. Hence, the need of robot-assisted rehabilitation emerges. A robot for upper-limb exercises should have a design that can accurately control interaction forces and progressively adapt assistance to the patients' abilities and also to record the patient's motion and evolution. In this paper a short overview of upper limb rehabilitation devices is presented. Our goal is to find the shortcomings of the current developed devices in terms of utility, ease of use and costs, for future development of a mechatronic system for upper limb rehabilitation. |
| Related Links | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/145/5/052014/pdf |
| ISSN | 17578981 |
| e-ISSN | 1757899X |
| DOI | 10.1088/1757-899x/145/5/052014 |
| Journal | Iop Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Volume Number | 145 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing |
| Publisher Date | 2016-08-23 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Iop Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering Upper Limb Limb Rehabilitation Devices |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
