Helping Hand Grasp Rehabilitation. Preliminary Assessment on Chronic Stroke Patients

Andrea Crema1, Eleonora Guanziroli2, Nebojsa Maleševic3, Maria Colombo2, Davide Liberali4, Davide Proserpio4, Goran Bijelic5, Thierry Keller6, F Molteni7, Silvestro Micera8

  • 1EPFL
  • 2Villa Beretta Rehabilitation Center, Valduce Hospital
  • 3Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade
  • 4Ospedale Valduce - Villa Beretta
  • 5Tecnalia Research & Innovation
  • 6FUNDACION TECNALIA Research & Innovation
  • 7Hospital Valduce 'Villa Beretta'
  • 8Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

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11:30 - 13:30 | Fri 26 May | Emerald III, Rose, Narcissus & Jasmine | FrPS1T1.39

Session: Poster I

Abstract

The Helping Hand (HH) system is a novel grasp rehabilitation platform aimed at simplifying the clinical usage of wearable electrode arrays for neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). In a randomized dose-matched, clinical study we evaluate usability and effectiveness of the HH treatment, and of other enriched upper limb rehabilitation treatments, and compare the outcomes. This paper shows the preliminary clinical results of the trial on 5 chronic stroke patients throughout a 9 weeks, 3 hours per week, hand preshaping training.