TY - GEN
T1 - Haptic exercises for measuring improvement of post-stroke rehabilitation patients
AU - Alamri, Atif
AU - Iglesias, Rosa
AU - Eid, Mohamad
AU - El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb
AU - Shirmohammadi, Shervin
AU - Lemaire, Edward
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Rehabilitation exercises supervised by Occupational Therapists (OTs), involve applying task-oriented forces to the injured/disabled area to regain, for instance, strength and range of motion. Haptic interfaces have shown clear benefits in imitating therapists' exercises with the possibilities of position, grasping angles and force capturing. In this paper, we present two haptic-based virtual reality exercises for stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation to recover all, or some, of their lost hand functions. The two exercises, the squeeze ball exercise and the maze exercise, were implemented using the CyberForce system. The squeeze ball exercise helps patients recover the action of hand grasping whereas the maze exercise aims at increasing the steadiness of the patient's movement. Our measurements of these exercises show that we can continuously evaluate the patient's improvement.
AB - Rehabilitation exercises supervised by Occupational Therapists (OTs), involve applying task-oriented forces to the injured/disabled area to regain, for instance, strength and range of motion. Haptic interfaces have shown clear benefits in imitating therapists' exercises with the possibilities of position, grasping angles and force capturing. In this paper, we present two haptic-based virtual reality exercises for stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation to recover all, or some, of their lost hand functions. The two exercises, the squeeze ball exercise and the maze exercise, were implemented using the CyberForce system. The squeeze ball exercise helps patients recover the action of hand grasping whereas the maze exercise aims at increasing the steadiness of the patient's movement. Our measurements of these exercises show that we can continuously evaluate the patient's improvement.
KW - Haptic application in medical systems
KW - Medical instrumentation
KW - Medical virtual environments
KW - Physical rehabilitation systems
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U2 - 10.1109/MEMEA.2007.4285160
DO - 10.1109/MEMEA.2007.4285160
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:47849122304
SN - 1424410800
SN - 9781424410804
T3 - MeMeA 2007 2nd - IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurement and Applications
SP - 41
EP - 46
BT - MeMeA 2007 2nd - IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurement and Applications
T2 - MeMeA 2007 2nd - IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurement and Applications
Y2 - 4 May 2007 through 5 May 2007
ER -