Deans' stroke musings: VIDEO: Exoskeleton Robot Developed In Hertfordshire Could Benefit Stroke Patients

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, October 2, 2015

VIDEO: Exoskeleton Robot Developed In Hertfordshire Could Benefit Stroke Patients

Looking at the size and moving parts I don't see how any hospital could afford to purchase one. Nothing to hang onto, unless you were quite balanced to begin with this is not the place to start your walking rehabilitation. I bet the person used is not a survivor.
http://www.bobfm.co.uk/news/local-news/exoskeleton-developed-in-hertfordshire-could-benefit-stroke-patients/

Stroke patients could learn to walk again with a robot developed by scientists at the University of Hertfordshire...

The 'CORBYS gait rehabilitation system' exoskeleton works with the patient to provide bespoke therapy, overseen by one specialist.
At the moment, if a patient is struggling with mobility, a number of physiotherapists are needed to help support them and manually correct their position.
But, experts think this new system could change all of that.
Several modes are available on the CORBYS system, which also provides a full range of movement and adapts to users' disabilities and constraints.
The machine - which is roughly the size of a forklift truck - could also be used to help people who have suffered serious head injuries walk again.
Scientists have told BOB fm that therapy sessions could also be extended as a patient working with the robot would only be restrained by their own limitations, instead of the fatigue of their therapists.
Dr Christoph Salge worked alongside his Hatfield-based colleagues Cornelius Glackin, Martin Greaves, Nicola Catenacci Volpi, Dari Trendafilov and Daniel Polani on the gait robot.
Dr Polani has been telling BOB fm: "This could help reducing pressure on repetitive tasks of the therapist during rehabilitation of stroke and other patients and improve the general availability of the therapist for required interventions".
The robot works by measuring patients' gaits in one setting where no restrictions are imposed, therapists can then study how they walk and manipulate the movement.
In the Corrective Operating Mode the patient can walk on the treadmill constrained by the robotic system, which can be tweaked and modified by the therapist.
Dr Polani added: "At the heart of the project was the development of an architecture which allows adaptable control of robots in different situations.
Rehabilitation is a particularly good example for the flexibility of the architecture".