Lightweight Soft Robotic Glove with Whole-Hand Finger Motion Tracking for Hand Rehabilitation in Virtual Reality. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel), 2023 Soft robotic gloves have attracted significant interest in hand rehabilitation in the past decade. However, current solutions are still heavy and lack finger-state monitoring and versatile treatment options. To address this, we present a lightweight soft
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Empowering Hand Rehabilitation with AI-Powered Gesture Recognition: A Study of an sEMG-Based System. [PDF]
Bioengineering (Basel), 2023 Stroke is one of the most prevalent health issues that people face today, causing long-term complications such as paresis, hemiparesis, and aphasia.
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Hand Rehabilitation Devices: A Comprehensive Systematic Review. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel), 2022 A cerebrovascular accident, or a stroke, can cause significant neurological damage, inflicting the patient with loss of motor function in their hands.
Kabir R, Sunny MSH, Ahmed HU, Rahman MH.
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Commercial device-based hand rehabilitation systems for stroke patients: State of the art and future prospects. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Various hand rehabilitation systems have recently been developed for stroke patients, particularly commercial devices. Articles from 10 electronic databases from 2010 to 2022 were extracted to conduct a systematic review to explore the existing ...
Sheng B, Zhao J, Zhang Y, Xie S, Tao J.
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A Novel Wearable Soft Glove for Hand Rehabilitation and Assistive Grasping. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2022 In order to assist patients with finger rehabilitation training and grasping objects, we propose a new type of soft rehabilitation gloves (SRGs), which has both flexion/extension and abduction/adduction movement function for every finger.
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Vibrotactile enhancement in hand rehabilitation has a reinforcing effect on sensorimotor brain activities. [PDF]
Front Neurosci, 2022 Objective Stroke patients often suffer from hand dysfunction or loss of tactile perception, which in turn interferes with hand rehabilitation. Tactile-enhanced multi-sensory feedback rehabilitation is an approach worth considering, but its effectiveness ...
Du Q, Luo J, Cheng Q, Wang Y, Guo S.
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Study on Flexible sEMG Acquisition System and Its Application in Muscle Strength Evaluation and Hand Rehabilitation. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel), 2022 Wearable devices based on surface electromyography (sEMG) to detect muscle activity can be used to assess muscle strength with the development of hand rehabilitation applications.
Liu C, Li J, Zhang S, Yang H, Guo K.
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Effect of task-oriented training assisted by force feedback hand rehabilitation robot on finger grasping function in stroke patients with hemiplegia: a randomised controlled trial. [PDF]
J Neuroeng RehabilOver 80% of patients with stroke experience finger grasping dysfunction, affecting independence in activities of daily living and quality of life. In routine training, task-oriented training is usually used for functional hand training, which may improve
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Flexohand: A Hybrid Exoskeleton-Based Novel Hand Rehabilitation Device. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel), 2021 Home-based hand rehabilitation has excellent potential as it may reduce patient dropouts due to travel, transportation, and insurance constraints. Being able to perform exercises precisely, accurately, and in a repetitive manner, robot-aided portable ...
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Robotic Systems for Hand Rehabilitation—Past, Present and Future
TechnologiesBackground: Cerebrovascular accident, commonly known as stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis represent significant neurological conditions affecting millions globally.
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