Integración de Un Sistema Robótico de Terapia Ocupacional para Extremidades Superiores con Estimulación Visual/Táctil de Los Pacientes

Abstract

Traditional upper limb rehabilitation exercises are primarily aimed at regaining the strength or range of motion of the patients' injured area. An alternative option that has been presented in the last years is the use of haptic interfaces, which have shown their potential as tools that support rehabilitation therapies. This article presents a haptic system of rehabilitation for fine upper limb movements, whose main characteristic is that users of the system can interact in a visual and tactile fashion with virtual objects mixed with real scenarios, thereby achieving an augmented reality environment. The system was tested in two stages, both with subjects who had a degree of disability in upper limbs. The data collected were followed trajectories, follow-up errors and the muscular activity obtained by means of electromyography; the collected information enabled the analysis, in a quantitative way, of the degree of progress of the patients. In addition, the assessments made by physiotherapists were considered, concluding that the proposed system can be used as a viable complementary tool for conventional rehabilitation therapies.

Diseño de sistema mecatrónico para terapia de extremidad superior de niños

“…Actualmente, los sistemas de rehabilitación robótica han surgido como un complemento a las terapias de rehabilitación tradicional, como se puede observar en la Figura 2; esto es, se proponen como mecanismos para proveer terapias de rehabilitación convencionales, incluso se estima que a largo plazo esta tecnología pueda reducir los costos de las terapias de rehabilitación. Investigaciones han demostrado que las terapias de rehabilitación robótica son efectivas como método de rehabilitación o como un complemento a las terapias de rehabilitación convencionales [3]. Figura 2.…”