NYU Students Invent Smartphone-Based Stroke Rehab Devices
From: Rehab Management - 06/21/2016

Using smartphone-enabled technology attached to garments, invented by
students from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, stroke recovery could be
more like a game than an arduous task.

The wearable mechatronic devices—including a jacket to measure arm placement,
a glove to measure wrist and finger placement and finger joint angles, and a
finger trainer built of hand-friendly, compliant material - are all connected
by a smartphone.

When a patient performs an assigned therapeutic exercise, microcontrollers
within the devices measure such information as grip strength and display it
via the smartphone to both the patient and the medical provider.

The activity can then turn into a virtual reality game in which the patient
observes the performance of the unaffected side of the body and tries to
mimic the activity on the affected side of the body.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.rehabpub.com/2016/06/nyu-students-invent-smartphone-based-stroke-rehab-devices

Links:
NYU Tandon Team Devises a Smarter Way for Stroke Patients to Rehabilitate
http://engineering.nyu.edu/press-releases/2016/06/20/nyu-tandon-team-devises-smarter-way-stroke-patients-rehabilitate

Researchers devise a smarter way for stroke patients to rehabilitate
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-06-smarter-patients.html