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Soft Printable Pneumatics for Wrist Rehabilitation

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Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II

Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics ((BIOSYSROB,volume 15))

Abstract

Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Rehabilitation is necessary to recover from such disability. However due to growing manpower constraints and greying populations, patients receive limited rehabilitative care. In recent years, soft robotics is slowly becoming more popular as a choice of technology for robot-assisted rehabilitation. Traditional methods of fabricating soft actuators typically require the use of mold-casting, which is a multi-step process. Therefore, this work aimed to adopt a single-step printable pneumatics technique to fabricate soft bending actuators for wrist rehabilitation. The printed pneumatic actuator showed increased bending curvature and force output with greater input air pressure. Based on our preliminary testing, we found that the soft wrist rehabilitation device, based on soft actuators developed using a printable pneumatics approach, is able to guide the wrist model and the human wrist through flexion-extension motions.

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education AcRF Tier 2 grant (R-397-000-203-112).

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The authors would like to thank NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering for providing scholarship support to the first author of this paper.

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  1. NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Singapore, Singapore

    H. K. Yap

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    H. Y. Ng & C. H. Yeow

  3. Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology and Advanced Robotics Center, Singapore, Singapore

    C. H. Yeow

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Correspondence to C. H. Yeow .

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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

    José María Azorín

  4. Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, USA

    Metin Akay

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

    José Luis Pons

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Yap, H.K., Ng, H.Y., Yeow, C.H. (2017). Soft Printable Pneumatics for Wrist Rehabilitation. 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_90

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