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The use of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) has been gainfully used for decades in stroke therapy but has been limited by its tendency to cause pain and fatigue during extended use. The use of surface EMG biofeedback for rehabilitation of sports injuries and other muscle disorders is well established but its use in post-stroke therapy is often hindered due to patients having poor attention and endurance.
This paper describes a flexible upper limb rehabilitation platform (“SynPhNe”) which provides multi-channel biofeedback and allows integration with FES. The design and set-up of the EMG-FES interface is enumerated with observations from usage in healthy subjects. This combination may facilitate more extensive repetitive practice and hence drive faster recovery of the impaired upper limb after stroke.
This study is sponsored by National Research Foundation, Singapore POC Grant NRF2010NRF-POC001-004N.
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Banerji, S., Heng, J., Ponvignesh, P.S., Menezes, D.D. (2013). Augmenting Rehabilitation after Stroke: A Flexible Platform for Combining Multi-channel Biofeedback with FES. In: Pons, J., Torricelli, D., Pajaro, M. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34546-3_41
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