Development of Rehabilitation System for Upper Limb “PLEMO-P3” Based on Clinical Tests
-Examination of Evaluation System with Burunnstrom Recovery Stage -

Abstract

In recent years, some kinds of haptic devices have been developed and evaluated its efficiency with clinical tests, for example, upper limb training for patients with spasticity after stroke. We have developed a rehabilitation system for upper limbs, “PLEMO-P3”. In this paper, we developed new sensing device for detecting abnormal symptoms of stroke. The purpose of this study is to build an appropriate evaluation system for stroke patients with information of abnormal symptoms. As a first step, we conducted reaching tests with this device. In this clinical evaluation, the subject is stroke patients and healthy subjects. By comparison with a patient movement and a normal movement, we recognized some differences of gripping forces, grip rotation angle and ground reaction forces among their movements. The effectiveness of the evaluation system of PLEMO-P3 was proven by the experiment.