Hand Rehabilitation Devices: A Comprehensive Systematic Review
A cerebrovascular accident, or a stroke, can cause significant neurological damage, inflicting the patient with loss of motor function in their hands. Standard rehabilitation therapy for the hand increases demands on clinics, creating an avenue for powered hand rehabilitation devices. Hand rehabilit...
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| description | A cerebrovascular accident, or a stroke, can cause significant neurological damage, inflicting the patient with loss of motor function in their hands. Standard rehabilitation therapy for the hand increases demands on clinics, creating an avenue for powered hand rehabilitation devices. Hand rehabilitation devices (HRDs) are devices designed to provide the hand with passive, active, and active-assisted rehabilitation therapy; however, HRDs do not have any standards in terms of development or design. Although the categorization of an injury’s severity can guide a patient into seeking proper assistance, rehabilitation devices do not have a set standard to provide a solution from the beginning to the end stages of recovery. In this paper, HRDs are defined and compared by their mechanical designs, actuation mechanisms, control systems, and therapeutic strategies. Furthermore, devices with conducted clinical trials are used to determine the future development of HRDs. After evaluating the abilities of 35 devices, it is inferred that standard characteristics for HRDs should include an exoskeleton design, the incorporation of challenge-based and coaching therapeutic strategies, and the implementation of surface electromyogram signals (sEMG) based control. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fb2f59ebe8334189a4b3b3d4adc9f9df2023-12-03T11:57:39ZengMDPI AGMicromachines2072-666X2022-06-01137103310.3390/mi13071033Hand Rehabilitation Devices: A Comprehensive Systematic ReviewRyan Kabir0Md Samiul Haque Sunny1Helal Uddin Ahmed2Mohammad Habibur Rahman3Department of Mechanical Engineering, BioRobotics Lab, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USADepartment of Computer Science, BioRobotics Lab, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USADepartment of Mechanical Engineering, BioRobotics Lab, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USADepartment of Mechanical Engineering, BioRobotics Lab, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USAA cerebrovascular accident, or a stroke, can cause significant neurological damage, inflicting the patient with loss of motor function in their hands. Standard rehabilitation therapy for the hand increases demands on clinics, creating an avenue for powered hand rehabilitation devices. Hand rehabilitation devices (HRDs) are devices designed to provide the hand with passive, active, and active-assisted rehabilitation therapy; however, HRDs do not have any standards in terms of development or design. Although the categorization of an injury’s severity can guide a patient into seeking proper assistance, rehabilitation devices do not have a set standard to provide a solution from the beginning to the end stages of recovery. In this paper, HRDs are defined and compared by their mechanical designs, actuation mechanisms, control systems, and therapeutic strategies. Furthermore, devices with conducted clinical trials are used to determine the future development of HRDs. After evaluating the abilities of 35 devices, it is inferred that standard characteristics for HRDs should include an exoskeleton design, the incorporation of challenge-based and coaching therapeutic strategies, and the implementation of surface electromyogram signals (sEMG) based control.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/13/7/1033hand rehabilitationrehabilitation therapyactuation mechanismcontrol system |
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| title | Hand Rehabilitation Devices: A Comprehensive Systematic Review |
| title_full | Hand Rehabilitation Devices: A Comprehensive Systematic Review |
| title_fullStr | Hand Rehabilitation Devices: A Comprehensive Systematic Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hand Rehabilitation Devices: A Comprehensive Systematic Review |
| title_short | Hand Rehabilitation Devices: A Comprehensive Systematic Review |
| title_sort | hand rehabilitation devices a comprehensive systematic review |
| topic | hand rehabilitation rehabilitation therapy actuation mechanism control system |
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