A short overview of upper limb rehabilitation devices

4th ModTech International Conference - Modern Technologies in Industrial Engineering

MacOvei, S.^1 ; Doroftei, I.^1

Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics and Robotics Department, Blvd. D. Mangeron, no. 63, Iasi

700050, Romania^1

关键词: Interaction forces;    Mechatronic systems;    Motor function;    Number of peoples;    Patient mobility;    Robot-assisted rehabilitation;    Upper-limb exercise;    Upper-limb rehabilitation;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/145/5/052014/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/145/5/052014

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

As some studies show, the number of people over 65 years old increases constantly, leading to the need of solution to provide services regarding patient mobility. Diseases, accidents and neurologic problems affect hundreds of people every day, causing pain and lost of motor functions. The ability of using the upper limb is indispensable for a human being in everyday activities, making easy tasks like drinking a glass of water a real challenge. We can agree that physiotherapy promotes recovery, but not at an optimal level, due to limited financial and human resources. Hence, the need of robot-assisted rehabilitation emerges. A robot for upper-limb exercises should have a design that can accurately control interaction forces and progressively adapt assistance to the patients' abilities and also to record the patient's motion and evolution. In this paper a short overview of upper limb rehabilitation devices is presented. Our goal is to find the shortcomings of the current developed devices in terms of utility, ease of use and costs, for future development of a mechatronic system for upper limb rehabilitation.