On December 25, 2016, Hand Rehabilitation Specialty Committee of Shanghai Electrophysiology and Rehabilitation Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance annual meeting and the first Hand Function Rehabilitation Innovation Competition was held in Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University. This competition involves the most popular mirror exsercise, functional electrical stimulation, biofeedback, rehabilitation assessment techniques and so on.
Awards scene
Awards scene
Over 30 teams applied for the competition. After the rigorous selection process, 10 teams successfully entered the final round competition. At the end, " Endoskeleton Robot —— Wireless wearable FES system aided hand function rehabilitation" presented by NeuCognic and partners received the second prize.
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has been proofed as an effective rehabilitation method for patients with hemiplegic limb motor disfunction resulting from central nerve injury or disease. But at present, the main application of FES is for simple and gross motor function training. FES application in complex hand movement rehab is desirable but less reported.
The project presented here uses the intelligent functional electrical stimulators developed by Jiangsu NeuCognic Medical Co., Ltd. The said stimulator is small and light. Several such stimulators are combined into a wearable multi-channel stimulation system, with stimulation timing programmed by a computer . Stimulators communicate with each other wirelessly, therefore can be synchronized without physical wire connections which otherwise could cause cable management difficulties. Multiple prescriptions are developed to control the stimulators which deliver stimuli to target muscles in preprogrammed timing sequence, thus aide a patient to complete some relatively complex hand movement. The triggering signal can be from a motion sensor located on the contralateral hand. It helps patients to rebuild the nerve function via the motion biofeedback training. The method present here is practical in clinical rehab treatment, and also in home care which may help patient through long-term rehab training.
The project presented here uses the intelligent functional electrical stimulators developed by Jiangsu NeuCognic Medical Co., Ltd. The said stimulator is small and light. Several such stimulators are combined into a wearable multi-channel stimulation system, with stimulation timing programmed by a computer . Stimulators communicate with each other wirelessly, therefore can be synchronized without physical wire connections which otherwise could cause cable management difficulties. Multiple prescriptions are developed to control the stimulators which deliver stimuli to target muscles in preprogrammed timing sequence, thus aide a patient to complete some relatively complex hand movement. The triggering signal can be from a motion sensor located on the contralateral hand. It helps patients to rebuild the nerve function via the motion biofeedback training. The method present here is practical in clinical rehab treatment, and also in home care which may help patient through long-term rehab training.
