Hand Rehab for Neuromuscular Disorders

Neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) are a heterogeneous group of diseases that are inherited or acquired, resulting from an abnormality in the anterior horn motor cells, peripheral nerves, neuromuscular junctions, or muscles. The most common neuromuscular diseases are motor neuron diseases, neuropathies, neuromuscular junction diseases, and muscular diseases based on anatomic localization.

Furthermore, neuromuscular disorders affect the nerves that control voluntary muscles and the nerves that communicate sensory information back to the brain. Nerve cells (neurons) send and receive electrical messages to and from the body to help control voluntary muscles. When the neurons become unhealthy or die, communication between the nervous system and muscles breaks down. As a result, muscles weaken and waste away (atrophy).

In fact, disorders can cause your muscles to become weak and waste away. You may also have symptoms such as spasms, twitching, and pain.
Some symptoms common to neuromuscular disorders include:
Muscle weakness can lead to twitching, cramps, aches, and pains, movement issues, numbness, tingling or painful sensations, droopy eyelids, double vision, trouble swallowing, and trouble breathing.

Currently, there is no cure for neuromuscular disorders. Research is being done on genetic therapies and new medications in hopes of finding a cure.

Treating symptoms, delaying disease progression, and enhancing the quality of life for patients is accomplished with medications, physical therapy, and absolutely rehabilitation recovery with robotic gloves SIFREHAB-1.1 is a crossroad between compliant robotic technology and neuroscience principles. Compliant pneumatic bionic muscles power the glove to flex and extend the fingers, minimize muscle tension, enhance blood circulation, relieve edema, and prevent muscle weakening. It helps the user to relearn through an exercise that engages the brain and muscles and re-establish brain nerves to control the hand’s movement.

Besides, portable hand rehabilitation gloves guarantee safe, intensive, and task-oriented rehabilitation at relatively moderate costs. Robotic rehabilitation gloves may apply forces with precision, improving accuracy and reducing variance. These actions are potentially effective to strengthen muscles. Clinic rehabilitation robotic gloves models also provide tactile feedback that may correct the impaired movements. In addition, They make it easy to collect a number of parameters useful to track the patient’s status.

As a result, SIFREHAB-1.1 was developed to aid rehabilitation and improve the efficacy of treatment for patients with neuromuscular disorders.

References:https://medlineplus.gov/neuromusculardisorders.html,https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/54500