A Wearable Arm and Wrist Rehabilitation Exercise Device Equipped with Monitoring System for Post Stroke Rehabilitation

Abstract

An analysis of rehabilitation activity for paralyzed patient. Monitoring rehabilitation activity
for post-stroke patients is more common in hospitals and rehabilitation center worldwide. To
develop user friendly and low price device for post-stroke patient’s activity observance is
difficult in rehabilitation engineering. Many technological devices have been developed like a
Wearable Arm and Wrist Rehabilitation Exercise device equipped with monitoring system for
post stroke rehabilitation were designed for and proposed. In this article, we identify several
functional activities of arm and wrist motoring defect is achieved by the exoskeleton system.
This system is controlled by the Arduino UNO Microcontroller and the LCD is acting as
monitoring unit. This allows investigating patterns of patient’s arm and wrist monitoring
functional activity. These studies experimented the activation patterns in different
experimental conditions such as water bottle take off, wrist stretching and grasp force.
Furthermore, findings attained from this project may enable us to contribute towards the
development of new arm rehabilitation monitoring device which can benefit human lives.