Posts Tagged "Stroke Patients"

BONES resonance test at the Biomechatronics Laboratory – University of California Irvine

BONES is a neurorehabilitation exoskeleton for stroke patients. In this video, BONES is tested performing high frequency motions in order to analyze its resonant modes. For more information visit the UCI Biomechatronics Laboratory website gram.eng.uci.edu

Testing the BONES robot at the Biomech Lab – University of California Irvine

BONES is a neurorehabilitation exoskeleton for stroke patients. In this video, BONES is tested assisting an unimpaired subject in performing the Reflex Inhibiting Pattern (RIP). For more information visit the UCI Biorobotics Laboratory website biorobotics.eng.uci.edu
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Pronation Supination Rehabilitation Robot

Masters Level project at Leeds University Designed for Stroke patients to rehabilitate wrist rotation for reach and grasp motion. Team memebers: Carwyn Jones, MENG Mechatronics Engineering Matthew Pearson, MENG Mechatronics Engineering Jacob Bramley, MENG Electronic Engineering
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A New Hope for Stroke Patients

Now scientists are impressed with how the ancient therapy can help stroke patients get back to a more normal life. NeuroAidTM was historically developed in China as a traditional chinese medicine to help stroke patients achieve better

rehabilitation.

Moleac, a bio pharmacy company, is bringing NeuroAid to western medicine internationally and ensures it meets western medicine standards to attend to the needs of stroke sufferers: NeuroAid supports them to achieve better neurological and functional recovery.

Researchers from the University’s School of Health Professions and Rehabilitation Sciences and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) have developed a technology to help stroke patients to re-learn movement, and local people are being invited to participate in trials.

Stroke is the number one cause of serious adult disability in the United States. Stroke is currently the third leading cause of death in the United States. Stroke ranks as the third leading cause of death in the world and is a main reason for disability and dependency in the elderly. Stroke has a greater disability impact than any other medical condition.

Stroke-related deficits are severe in approximately one third of the survivors and moderate or mild in the other two thirds. Stroke patients have been shown to achieve significantly lower maximal workloads and heart rate and blood pressure responses than control subjects during progressive exercise testing to volitional fatigue.

Stroke patients usually experience the most dramatic recovery in the first 30 days but may continue to improve more gradually for months. The first of Moleac’s offering is Neuroaid, the first drug that can help patients recover faster from their stroke disabilities.

Patients suffer physical and other problems, such as loss of memory, vision, spatial awareness and mobility through paralysis. Patients may find that they can no longer understand written words, that they cannot pronounce words anymore, or that they can speak volumes of words but fail to convey the meanings they intend.

Patients in the study were offered 10 weeks the therapy, in which restraint of the unaffected arm forced them to use their affected arm for everyday tasks. Patients then engaged in daily repetitive task and behavioral shaping sessions, which included training in tasks such as opening a lock, turning a doorknob, or pouring a drink.

Patients using simulator training were more likely both to pass the driver’s test and to retain the skill level achieved in training. NeuroAid has shown efficacy for patients who suffered a stroke in the past 6 months and have resulting loss of motor function or independence.

New methods for speeding recovery will have an enormous impact for the individuals involved and for the costs of providing long-term therapy, support and care. Now MIT pioneers in the field of robotic therapy are hoping a robotic gym full of machines targeted at different parts of the body will significantly improve stroke patients’ movement in arms, wrists, hands, legs and ankles.

In the first clinical trial, the researchers found that stroke patients who used the machine four to five hours a week improved further and faster, as measured by increased function of the impaired limb, than a second group of patients that did not receive robot-assisted therapy. “We’re looking for efficiency because in the long — it might be possible to do some of the therapy with a robot instead of having to ask somebody to drive in to the therapy center.

To regain speech and movement after a stroke, 150,000 Chinese have used a medicine containing extracts from leeches and scorpions, says the product’s manufacturer, Moleac, which is based in Singapore. David Picard, CEO of Moleac, the Singapore/Biopolis-based global biopharmaceutical company that develops and markets NeuroAid(TM) outside of China, said: ”We are delighted at the interest NeuroAid(TM) has generatedin the medical community worldwide.

Stroke Sufferers Helped by Complementary and Alternative Medicine

“More and more, patients are requesting care beyond what most consider to be traditional health services,” say researchers
Sita Ananth of Health Forum and William Martin, PsyD, of the College of Commerce at DePaul University in Chicago, in a news release. “Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) includes therapies not based on traditional Western medical teachings and may include acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, diet and lifestyle changes, herbal medicine, and

massage therapy, among others.

Using magnetic fields to activate the brain and improve movement sounds like something out of a science-fiction novel. While trials of the efficacy of novel drugs in acute stroke and secondary prevention are vital, there is an urgent need for greater funding for non-drug treatment and, in particular, into aspects of stroke service delivery and organisation.

Improved automated detection of embolic signals using a novel frequency filtering approach. Today, cutting-edge robotics technology is revolutionizing how stroke is diagnosed (telemedicine) and treated (robot assisted therapy).

Recent clinical trials have shown that robot-assisted therapy may help stroke patients regain arm movements, even years after a disabling stroke. A monitor attached to the robot plays a series of video games to encourage patients to extend their arms, with the assistance of the robot. Robot assisted therapy is only one tool in the arsenal for stroke rehabilitation. Robots are also assisting on the frontline to quicken the process of stroke diagnosis.

Developed in China as a traditional chinese medicine to help stroke patients achieve better rehabilitation. NeuroAid is safe and has very few reported side effects, which have been found to beof minor concern (such as nausea, vomiting or increased thirst).

NeuroAid has shown efficacy for patients who suffered a stroke in the past 6months and have resulting loss of motor function or independence.