Design of a Passive Wearable Device Using an Optimized Mechanical Metamaterial for Mirror Therapy

IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot. 2023 Sep:2023:1-6. doi: 10.1109/ICORR58425.2023.10304724.

Abstract

Mirror Therapy (MT) is an effective therapeutic method used in the rehabilitation of hemiplegics. The effectiveness of this method is improved by employing a bi-modal approach which requires the synchronous movement of the affected and unaffected arm. For this purpose, we describe the design of a wearable device using a Mechanical Metamaterial (MM) that is optimized for the specific user to provide passive assistance of wrist flexion-extension and enable synchronous motion of the affected and unaffected arm during MT.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Mirror Movement Therapy*
  • Movement
  • Wearable Electronic Devices*
  • Wrist
  • Wrist Joint