Device helps retrain the reach in stroke survivors with limb paresis
From: PT Products - SOAP Notes - 07/09/2008

Device helps retrain the reach in stroke survivors with limb paresis

A novel nonrobotic device called the Sensorimotor Active Rehabilitation
Training (SMART) Arm can assist stroke survivors with severe paresis re-learn
the task of reaching, a study shows. 

"Our findings indicate that training of reaching using the SMART Arm can
reduce impairment and improve activity in stroke survivors with severe and
chronic upper limb paresis, highlighting the benefits of intensive
task-oriented practice, even in the context of severe paresis."  

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Links:
Training of Reaching in Stroke Survivors With Severe and Chronic Upper Limb
   Paresis Using a Novel Nonrobotic Device 
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/short/39/6/1800

Device Helps Retrain Arm Reach after Stroke
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=5309030