TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual Reality, Robot, and objects in hand and arm training
T2 - 9th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMed 2012
AU - August, Katherine G.
AU - Hepp-Reymond, Marie Claude
AU - Guidali, Marco
AU - Sellathurai, Mathini
AU - Kiper, Daniel
AU - Eng, Kynan
AU - Riener, Robert
AU - Adamovich, Sergei V.
AU - Ulrich, Anett
AU - Curt, Armin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Many patients experience severe motor, proprioception and tactile sensory loss following central or peripheral nervous system injury such as Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). For many, there are no traditional therapies available and patients fail to use the hand and arm dramatically affecting their quality of life. Our project investigates technology assisted protocols to help re-calibrate body perceptions and improve sensory dependent motor skills. We designed, built and tested an easy to use system to provide technology assistance to a variety of underserved patients, and therapists. The Sensory Motor Training Station (SMTS) accommodates the patient's lost sensory and motor skills and is used to train cognitive, sensory, motor, and proprioception skills. Virtual Reality (VR) is used with immersive virtual limbs and real objects to increase sense of involvement, and provide tactile experiences in a real world integrated arm and hand task. Robot assistance as needed or transparent mode is provided to overcome patient weakness and promote practice plasticity. We trained a person suffering from GBS. The patient successfully exercised and skills were assessed using the system. SMTS can easily be adapted to accommodate left or right limb, heterogeneous patients, and individual cognitive, sensory and motor issues. Results revealed patient performance varies in each sensory and motor training condition; performance improved in the presence of real objects and also during voluntary motor participation in the exercises facilitated by the robot transparent mode with support against gravity and friction. Our multi-sensory technology assistance system provided exercise and assessment for both upper limbs in a real world integrated hand and arm task.
AB - Many patients experience severe motor, proprioception and tactile sensory loss following central or peripheral nervous system injury such as Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). For many, there are no traditional therapies available and patients fail to use the hand and arm dramatically affecting their quality of life. Our project investigates technology assisted protocols to help re-calibrate body perceptions and improve sensory dependent motor skills. We designed, built and tested an easy to use system to provide technology assistance to a variety of underserved patients, and therapists. The Sensory Motor Training Station (SMTS) accommodates the patient's lost sensory and motor skills and is used to train cognitive, sensory, motor, and proprioception skills. Virtual Reality (VR) is used with immersive virtual limbs and real objects to increase sense of involvement, and provide tactile experiences in a real world integrated arm and hand task. Robot assistance as needed or transparent mode is provided to overcome patient weakness and promote practice plasticity. We trained a person suffering from GBS. The patient successfully exercised and skills were assessed using the system. SMTS can easily be adapted to accommodate left or right limb, heterogeneous patients, and individual cognitive, sensory and motor issues. Results revealed patient performance varies in each sensory and motor training condition; performance improved in the presence of real objects and also during voluntary motor participation in the exercises facilitated by the robot transparent mode with support against gravity and friction. Our multi-sensory technology assistance system provided exercise and assessment for both upper limbs in a real world integrated hand and arm task.
KW - Hand and arm rehabilitation
KW - Proprioception training
KW - Sensorimotor rehabilitation
KW - Virtual Reality and robot training
KW - Virtual reality Guillain-Barre rehabilitation
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U2 - 10.2316/P.2012.764-134
DO - 10.2316/P.2012.764-134
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863681716
SN - 9780889869097
T3 - Proceedings of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMed 2012
SP - 450
EP - 457
BT - Proceedings of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMed 2012
Y2 - 15 February 2012 through 17 February 2012
ER -