[Abstract + References] Intelligent Music Rehabilitation Hand Based on Voice Recognition – Full Text PDF

Abstract

Music therapy has its unique clinical application value in improving conscious state, emotional state, language communication ability, motion function, sleep state and the rehabilitation of the brain’s cognitive function of the patients who suffer from cerebral apoplexy and cerebral injury. With the rapid development of music rehabilitation therapy, it has become an important power in modern rehabilitation medicine, which is valued by rehabilitation workers. During rehabilitation training, the therapists, with the help of apparatuses, carry out hand technique and lower limbs training for the patients, or help them train by means of apparatuses. Rehabilitation equipment is a rehabilitation therapy facility widely used in the field of clinical care. At present, the existing rehabilitation equipment is mostly heavy, which makes the rehabilitation training dull and boring, and induces irritation of those receiving rehabilitation therapy through finger training to the disadvantage of the therapy. In the paper, an intelligent music rehabilitation hand is designed to help them for therapy at different stages. Different modes can be selected with voice interactive mode and control device. By using the theory of steering engine driving, the intelligent music rehabilitation hand can drive the steering engine with the rhythm of the music to achieve the aim of rehabilitation through driving the clenching and spreading of the fingers. With such a device, people can carry out their rehabilitation therapy while enjoying the music.

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[ARTICLE] Efficacy of robot-assisted fingers training in chronic stroke survivors: a pilot randomized-controlled trial – Full Text PDF

Abstract (provisional)

Background: While constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is one of the most promising techniques for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke, it requires high residual function to start with. Robotic device, on the other hand, can provide intention-driven assistance and is proven capable to complement conventional therapy. However, with many robotic devices focus on more proximal joints like shoulder and elbow, recovery of hand and fingers functions have become a challenge. Here we propose the use of robotic device to assist hand and fingers functions training and we aim to evaluate the potential efficacy of intention-driven robot-assisted fingers training.

Methods: Participants (6 to 24 months post-stroke) were randomly assigned into two groups: robot-assisted (robot) and non-assisted (control) fingers training groups. Each participant underwent 20-session training. Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) was used as the primary outcome measure, while, Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) score, its functional tasks (WMFT-FT) sub-score, Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA), its shoulder and elbow (FMA-SE) sub-score, and finger individuation index (FII) served as secondary outcome measures.

Results: Nineteen patients completed the 20-session training (Trial Registration: HKClinicalTrials.com HKCTR-1554); eighteen of them came back for a 6-month follow-up. Significant improvements (p < 0.05) were found in the clinical scores for both robot and control group after training. However, only robot group maintained the significant difference in the ARAT and FMA-SE six months after the training. The WMFT-FT score and time post-training improvements of robot group were significantly better than those of the control group.

Conclusions: This study showed the potential efficacy of robot-assisted fingers training for hand and fingers rehabilitation and its feasibility to facilitate early rehabilitation for a wider population of stroke survivors; and hence, can be used to complement CIMT.

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