Affordable stroke therapy in high-, low- and middle-income countries: From Theradrive to Rehab CARES, a compact robot gym:

Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering

Michelle JillianJohnson¹ 

关键词: Design;    stroke;    neurorehabilitation;    robot therapy;    haptic;    rehabilitation;    motivation;    high-income countries;    low-;    middle-income countries;    global health;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2055668317708732

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Affordable technology-assisted stroke rehabilitation approaches can improve access to rehabilitation for low-resource environments characterized by the limited availability of rehabilitation experts and poor rehabilitation infrastructure. This paper describes the evolution of an approach to the implementation of affordable, technology-assisted stroke rehabilitation which relies on low-cost mechatronic/robot devices integrated with off-the-shelf or custom games. Important lessons learned from the evolution and use of Theradrive in the USA and in Mexico are briefly described. We present how a stronger and more compact version of the Theradrive is leveraged in the development of a new low-cost, all-in-one robot gym with four exercise stations for upper and lower limb therapy called Rehab Community-based Affordable Robot Exercise System (Rehab C.A.R.E.S). Three of the exercise stations are designed to accommodate versions of the 1 DOF haptic Theradrive with different custom handles or off-the-shelf commercial...

【 授权许可】

CC BY