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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Joonwoo Park
• Hee-Tae Jung
• Daneault, Jean-Francois
• Sungji Park
• Taekyeong Ryu
• Yangsoo Kim
• Lee, Sunghoon Ivan

Titel

Effectiveness of the RAPAEL Smart Board for Upper Limb Therapy in Stroke Survivors: A Pilot Controlled Trial

Ist Teil von

• 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2018, Vol.2018, p.2466-2469

Ort / Verlag

United States: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We aim to assess the effectiveness of using the RAPAEL Smart Board as an assistive tool for therapists in clinical rehabilitation therapy settings and to investigate if it can be used to improve the motor recovery rate of stroke survivors. The RAPAEL Smart Board is a therapy tool where therapists actively engage patients, giving necessary verbal and physical interventions as in traditional treatment sessions. We conducted a randomized controlled study with 17 stroke survivors. An experimental group received therapy using the RAPAEL Smart Board for 30 minutes a day, 5 days per week, for 4 weeks in addition to their traditional treatments (i.e., 30 minutes of functional arm movement therapy). A control group received two 30-minute sessions of traditional treatment 5 days per week, for 4 weeks. The upper-extremity function was measured using the Wolf Motor Function Test before and after the 4-week interventions. Our results demonstrate that using the RAPAEL Smart Board, in combination with traditional treatment, significantly improves motor recovery when compared to traditional treatments alone.