Home-Use Upper Limb Rehabilitation Device for Cervical Spinal Cord Injured Patients

Ohnishi, Kengo; Goto, Eri; Sugiki, Fumitake; Imado, Keiji; Ikeuchi, Hidetaka; Kito, Nobuhiro; Miyagawa, Hiroomi; Saitō, Yukio

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-27817-7_129

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“…In another study, Kizony et al [ 53 ] demonstrated the potential of using the GestureTek's Gesture Xtreme VR system to assess static balance in 13 participants with paraplegia, showing positive responses to the experience as well as the expressions of interest in having additional sessions with the system. Ohnishi et al [ 55 ] used isometric training with biofeedback of visual effects as in video games with a system comprising a PC and a joystick type controller comparing one person with SCI with a nondisabled participant. Results of the pilot test showed that the system is capable of assessing the differences of the individuals.…”

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Effectiveness of the Virtual Reality System Toyra on Upper Limb Function in People with Tetraplegia: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial

Dimbwadyo-Terrer

Gil-Agudo

Segura‐Fragoso³

et al. 2016

BioMed Research International

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The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a virtual reality program combined with conventional therapy in upper limb function in people with tetraplegia and to provide data about patients' satisfaction with the virtual reality system. Thirty-one people with subacute complete cervical tetraplegia participated in the study. Experimental group received 15 sessions with Toyra® virtual reality system for 5 weeks, 30 minutes/day, 3 days/week in addition to conventional therapy, while control group only received conventional therapy. All patients were assessed at baseline, after intervention, and at three-month follow-up with a battery of clinical, functional, and satisfaction scales. Control group showed significant improvements in the manual muscle test (p = 0,043, partial η 2 = 0,22) in the follow-up evaluation. Both groups demonstrated clinical, but nonsignificant, changes to their arm function in 4 of the 5 scales used. All patients showed a high level of satisfaction with the virtual reality system. This study showed that virtual reality added to conventional therapy produces similar results in upper limb function compared to only conventional therapy. Moreover, the gaming aspects incorporated in conventional rehabilitation appear to produce high motivation during execution of the assigned tasks. This trial is registered with EudraCT number 2015-002157-35.

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Effectiveness of the Virtual Reality System Toyra on Upper Limb Function in People with Tetraplegia: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial

Dimbwadyo-Terrer

Gil-Agudo

Segura‐Fragoso³

et al. 2016

BioMed Research International

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“…Actually, we achieve a certain result on upper limb rehabilitation of cervical spinal cord injured patients [1] . Therefore, we consider that functions of data recording and displaying of training analysis results are essential for mechatronics training system.…”

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Development of visual information function in reaction force feedback type Gait Training System

Ikeuchi

Saitō

Ohnishi

2012

2012 9th France-Japan &Amp; 7th Europe-Asia Congress on Mechatronics (MECATRONICS) / 13th Int'l Workshop on Research and Educat

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Our developing Gait Training System is the training device that tries to obtain the effect similar to the walk training in the warm water swimming pool. A train patient is slung and supported by the slinging system. They walk the force plate top. Slinging it up power is controlled on the basis of the information from the force plates. In this paper, we show the outline of our system and improvement of sling mechanism using bilateral servo system. Next, method and application of force measurement is shown and development of visual feedback function of trainee's foot contacted point and target contact point is shown.

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“…The marker locus M is calculated by summing dX and dY in time sequence, as in (1). The error distance is calculated as the distance of the marker position M and the target position T as in (2).…”

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“…INTRODUCTION [1] esearches have been reported on applying robotics, virtual reality, and haptics technology for rehabilitation and diagnosis purpose of the upper extremities [2]- [5]. These systems with robot assisted rehabilitation enables to provide training and diagnosis with accuracy and repeatability, while recording the performance with quantitative measure.…”

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Field Test of a Force Control Rehabilitation System for Quantitative Evaluation of the Disorder in the Upper Extremities

Goto

Ohnishi

Miyagawa

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9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2005. ICORR 2005.

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This paper reports on a field test of our simple force-sensor-based rehabilitation device that can be handled at homes or neighboring medical institutions. We propose a tri-axial load cell controller system for quantitatively evaluating the visually guided motor control characteristic of a weak palsy arm. The result is recorded in the database while evaluation is presented for each trial. The system is tested at an orthopedic clinic with outpatients: cervical spinal cord injured patient and 2 other cases. Their mid-term testing results are discussed.

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Home-Use Upper Limb Rehabilitation Device for Cervical Spinal Cord Injured Patients

Cited by 5 publications

References 2 publications

Effectiveness of the Virtual Reality System Toyra on Upper Limb Function in People with Tetraplegia: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial

Effectiveness of the Virtual Reality System Toyra on Upper Limb Function in People with Tetraplegia: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial

Development of visual information function in reaction force feedback type Gait Training System

Field Test of a Force Control Rehabilitation System for Quantitative Evaluation of the Disorder in the Upper Extremities

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