Development of a Reaching Function Assessment System for Hemiplegic Patient
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Huang, Ying-Chieh
Abstract
Stroke is one of the major causes of adult disabilities, among which upper motion problems are the most commonly seen. About two-third of stroke patients are unable to use their upper limb functionally and lost their independence of activities of daily living. Stroke patients often remain affected upper limb motor impairment and demonstrate disability in performing activities of daily living. Due to the growth of neuroscience, the relationships between brain reorganization and therapy-induced motor recovery have been further explored. Thus, the development of clinical evaluation based on neuroscience evidence, for the interventions of paretic upper motor recovery will contribute to the recovery of motor function, and consequently increase the quality of life for patients with stroke. Only some clinical evaluation instruments were available to evaluate the upper extremity functions of stroke for a physical therapist. Motion analysis systems could provide objective kinematic data of stroke patients. according as mention above, in this study we designed an upper limbs function system that has a reasonable price and easy to use. Using the LabVIEW, accelerometers and potentiometers collected the parameters of reaching movement for hemiplegic patient. These parameters then transferred to the clinical therapist as the basis that consulted afterwards. We measured the reaching movement analysis, compared the kinematics characteristic with upper limb function for the different hemiplegic patient, can assess the upper limbs function with the characteristic of kinematics and achieve the purpose of the easily upper limbs function.
Subjects
accelerometer
reaching
stroke
Type
thesis
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