By stating “All people, everywhere, deserve the right care, right in their community,” [21] . the World Health Organization sets, in an exhortative way, the fundamental assumption for primary health care. Under these premises, we developed an augmented and extended approach to a home-rehabilitation system to provide intensive care to chronic stroke patients with aphasia. The … [Read more...] about A Novel Telerehabilitation Approach for Cognitive-Language Therapy in Chronic Stroke Subjects With Aphasia
Patient rehabilitation
ArmAssist: A Telerehabilitation Solution for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation at Home
ArmAssist (AA), developed by TECNALIA, is a telerehabilitation platform aiming to help poststroke subjects maintain the rehabilitation of the upper limb at home. AA includes robotic modules with multiple sensors to train and measure the users’ voluntary movements. An assessment platform based on serious games is also included to not only engage the user but also perform … [Read more...] about ArmAssist: A Telerehabilitation Solution for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation at Home
A Method for a Compliant Robot Arm to Perform a Bandaging Task on a Swaying Arm: A Proposed Approach
Bandaging is a regular and indispensable nursing task in daily medical care. The task is challenging for robots because it requires simultaneous control of the bandaging trajectory and tension. The patient’s involuntary swaying due to pain and other reasons may cause further complications. To solve these problems, a compliant robot arm based on the serial elastic actuator (SEA) … [Read more...] about A Method for a Compliant Robot Arm to Perform a Bandaging Task on a Swaying Arm: A Proposed Approach
