title: Development of virtual reality exercise of hand motion assist robot for rehabilitation therapy by patient self-motion control.
abstract: This paper presents a virtual reality-enhanced hand rehabilitation support system with a symmetric master-slave motion assistant for independent rehabilitation therapies. Our aim is to provide fine motion exercise for a hand and fingers, which allows the impaired hand of a patient to be driven by his or her healthy hand on the opposite side. Since most disabilities caused by cerebral vascular accidents or bone fractures are hemiplegic, we adopted a symmetric master-slave motion assistant system in which the impaired hand is driven by the healthy hand on the opposite side. A VR environment displaying an effective exercise was created in consideration of system's characteristic. To verify the effectiveness of this system, a clinical test was executed by applying to six patients.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering Gifu University, Yanagido 1-1, Japan. s ueki@gifu-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ueki
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nishimoto
authors.forename: Motoyuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Haruhisa
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawasaki
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ishigure
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mizumoto
authors.forename: Takeo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ojika
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D004867:Equipment Design; D015444:Exercise; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008328:Man-Machine Systems; D008875:Middle Aged; D009068:Movement; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D014584:User-Computer Interface