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Delivering Remote Rehabilitation at Home: An Integrated Physio-Neuro Approach to Effective and User Friendly Wearable Devices

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There is a global shortage of manpower and technology in rehabilitation to attend to the five million new patients who are left disabled every year with stroke. Neuroplasticity is increasingly recognized to be a primary mechanism to achieve significant motor recovery. However, most rehabilitation devices either limit themselves to mechanical repetitive movement practice at a limb level or focus only on cognitive tasks. This may result in improvements in impairment but seldom translates into effective limb and hand use in daily activities. This paper presents an easy-to-use, wearable upper limb system, SynPhNe (pronounced like “symphony”), which trains brain and muscle as one system employing neuroplasticity principles. A summary of clinical results with stroke patients is presented. A new, wireless, home-use version of the solution architecture has been proposed, which can make it possible for patients to do guided therapy at home and thus have access to more therapy hours.

This study was supported by the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMART) Innovation grant, 2012 and SPRING TECS grant, 2014, Singapore.

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  1. Department of Paediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Subhasis Banerji

  2. Division of Mechatronics and Design, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    John Heng

  3. Max Super Specialty Hospital, New Delhi, India

    Alakananda Banerjee & Robins Kumar

  4. Synphne Pte Ltd., Singapore, Singapore

    Subhasis Banerji, John Heng, P. S. Ponvignesh & Daphne Menezes

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  1. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    Jaime Ibáñez

  2. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José González-Vargas

  3. Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Elche, Spain

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    José Luis Pons

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Banerji, S., Heng, J., Banerjee, A., Ponvignesh, P.S., Menezes, D., Kumar, R. (2017). Delivering Remote Rehabilitation at Home: An Integrated Physio-Neuro Approach to Effective and User Friendly Wearable Devices. In: Ibáñez, J., González-Vargas, J., Azorín, J., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_178

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