The Impact Of Stroke On Daily Living Activities

The World Health Organization (WHO) defined stroke as “rapidly developing clinical signs of focal (or global) disturbance of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting 24 hours or longer, or leading to death, with no apparent cause other than vascular origin” in 1970. The American Stroke Association recently proposed a new definition of stroke for the twenty-first century that incorporates clinical and tissue criteria. This definition is much broader, encompassing any objective evidence of permanent brain, spinal cord, or retinal cell death attributed to a vascular etiology based on pathological or imaging evidence, with or without clinical evidence.

Following a stroke, patients may struggle with daily activities, indicating a critical need for rehabilitation to increase independence. This is the ultimate goal for which therapists, particularly occupational therapists, are there to assist the patient.

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), funds research on brains and nervous systems disorders such as stroke and post-stroke rehabilitation. Several other NIH Institutes contribute to rehabilitation efforts as well. Similarly, research shows that the most important component of any neurorehabilitation program is carefully directed, well-focused, repetitive practice—the same type of practice that everyone uses when using Robotic rehabilitation.

Rehabilitation assists people who have had a stroke in relearning skills that are suddenly lost when a portion of the brain is damaged.

The fastest-growing area of therapeutic research is evidence about technologies for stroke rehabilitation. We recommend SIFREHAB-1.0.

The Versatile Automated Recovery Gloves make a difference for patients who are not able to go to physical treatment sessions at the healing center to do they possess rehabilitative preparation securely and independently.
The most known advantages of the robotic rehabilitation gloves are:

⦁ Cost-effective home therapy for stroke survivors, easy to use, helps patients to exercise anytime, anywhere.
⦁ Helps patients to rebuild their hand functions through exercise and then again their ability to take care of themselves in daily life.
⦁ The simultaneous movement of both hands activates mirror neurons to replicate the normal hand nerve pathways to the affected hand, to promote autonomic recovery of the brain.
⦁ Polymer soft gloves, a variety of flexible polymer materials, three-dimensional cutting, fit the human hand, manual pneumatic flexible drive, easy and convenient.
⦁ Used for hand trauma, cerebral palsy, cerebral palsy, plastic surgery caused by stroke (cerebral ischemia, cerebral hemorrhage) hand dysfunction, brain injury, etc.

Literally, Automated Recovery Gloves are highly recommended in the applications below:

  – Crush injuries and other hand trauma.
  -Tendon and/or ligament tears and other tendon injuries.
  -Peripheral nerve disorders and other neurological conditions.
  -Fractures and dislocations.
  -Arthritis or tendonitis.
  –Carpal tunnel syndrome.
  –Dupuytren’s contracture.

In addition, SIFREHAB-1.0 is also suitable for patients and it has 2 training modes as mirror therapy training during this therapy, the mirror glove, which contains force and flex sensors, is worn on the non-affected hand and is used to measure the gripping force and bending angle of each finger joint for motion detection. The motor glove, powered by micromotors, assists the affected hand in performing training tasks by providing an assisted driving force.

When it comes to the second mode, there are ADLs (activities of daily living) are also known as self-help or self-care activities. Dressing, self-feeding, bathing, laundry, and/or meal preparation are examples of such activities. The SIFREHAB-1.0 detects and boosts weak conscious hand activity to complete the intended hand movement.

Indeed, The SIFREHAB-1.1 is also highly recommended because it combines flexible robotic technology and neuroscience theory, using flexible pneumatic bionic muscles as a power source, which can promote finger flexion and extension, reduce muscle tension, promote blood circulation, relieve edema, and prevent muscle atrophy. At the same time, it can help users relearn through an exercise from the three levels of nerves, brain, and muscles, and rebuild brain nerves to control the hands’ movement.

The vast majority of stroke survivors, particularly those with incomplete spinal cord injury, do not have enough active wrist and/or finger extension to allow the hand to be functional. Stroke recovery gloves, such as the SIFREHAB-1.1 and SIFREHAB-1.0, provide a biomechanical advantage in allowing prehension, grasp, and release activities for people with moderate to severe hemiparesis.

References: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/ /  https://www.who.int/