指の随意運動を対象とした作業療法リハビリを支援する簡便な家庭向けデバイス

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In current health care system, it is difficult to have sufficient rehabilitation. Therefore, rehabilitation support at home is needed as soon as possible. In recent years, it has been recognized that the exercises for voluntary movement of fingertip contribute to recover the physical functions. In previous paper, we developed and reported simple robotic devices that will improve upper extremity functionality by finger rehabilitation. However, this device had some problems. First, this device could not fit some hand shapes of patient some times. Second, it was difficult for some patients to operate this device. Finally, the device's current sensor could not measure accurate pressure data of patients' finger. In this paper, we discuss improvement method of these problems.