New Move to Use Robots for Stroke Rehabilitation
From: University of Hertfordshire (UK) - 12/06/2011
By: Emily Iversen 

The European Commission is funding the development of robotic devices to help
people recover from strokes. The Supervised Care and Rehabilitation Involving
Personal Tele-robotics project will develop robotic devices that facilitate
repetitive movements of the hand and wrist that would be performed during
chronic phases of stroke rehabilitation. "The project focus on hand and wrist
exercise presents the least researched area in this field and has the
potential to make a big contribution to personal independence," says the
University of Hertfordshire's Farshid Amirabdollahian. "Our developed
prototypes will be available for home use and in a motivating and engaging
context, which should provide easier and more frequently available tools,
which should in turn affect the patient recovery." Patients will be able to
use the tele-robotic communication platform in their own home, and remote
management will help cut down on the number of hospital visits. Patients and
off-site health-care professionals would receive immediate feedback. The
three-year project also will pursue more natural interaction for therapeutic
human-robot interaction. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.herts.ac.uk/news-and-events/latest-news/New-Move-to-Use-Robots-for-Stroke-Rehabilitation.cfm

Links:
Farshid Amirabdollahian
http://web-apps.herts.ac.uk/uhweb/about-us/profiles/profiles_home.cfm?profile=93E98391-B756-B738-BFCA0E7A647DD0C8

Gail Mountain
http://research.shu.ac.uk/lab4living/about/people/professor-gail-mountain

Robots supporting personal independence and rehabilitation
http://www.sparc.ac.uk/workshops/2009-11-24-robots-for-rehabilitation/programme.asp

Supervised Care and Rehabilitation Involving Personal Tele-robotics
http://scriptproject.eu/