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Augmenting Rehabilitation after Stroke: A Flexible Platform for Combining Multi-channel Biofeedback with FES

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Abstract

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.

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  • Maximum Voluntary Contraction
  • Functional Electrical Stimulation
  • Flexible Platform
  • Finger Extensor
  • Functional Electrical Stimulation System

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This study is sponsored by National Research Foundation, Singapore POC Grant NRF2010NRF-POC001-004N.

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  1. Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Subhasis Banerji

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

    John Heng & P. S. Ponvignesh

  3. School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang, Singapore

    Daphne D. Menezes

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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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