Development of the Mirror Therapy System with Tactile Sense Presentation

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In recent years, the stroke patient is in a tendency to increase. Many of them have hemiplegia as sequela. It was proved that the paralyzed function could be restored for rehabilitation. Therefore, rehabilitation is provided by various methods now. In this study, we developed the rehabilitation support system for hemiplegia patient. A method of the rehabilitation include what's called mirror therapy. This mirror therapy system gives mirror movement and tactile sense information to hemiplegia patient. In this paper, we show overview of system and result of evaluation experiment.