Study on At-home Wrist Rehabilitation System by Remote Passive Exercise

Abstract

This study focuses on the at-home wrist rehabilitation system aiming to achieve the situation where home-stay patients can accept rehabilitation from therapist in clinic. As the first stage, this paper discusses the development of the wrist rehabilitation by remote passive exercise for stroke patients. Firstly, based on the dynamic model of passive exercise, rehabilitation by remote passive exercise is proposed. Secondly, pneumatic pseudo-therapist which can realize the therapist’s rehabilitation actions and pneumatic pseudo-patient which can realize the patient’s resistance are designed and fabricated. Finally, based on the experimental result in clinic, the validity of the rehabilitation system developed in this paper is verified.