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Effectiveness and usability assessments of clinical upper limb rehabilitation equipment: A case study of an incline board
Published in Artde Donald Kin-Tak Lam, Stephen D. Prior, Siu-Tsen Shen, Sheng-Joue Young, Liang-Wen Ji, Innovation in Design, Communication and Engineering, 2020
Lan-Ling Huang*, Mei-Hsiang Chen
Stroke is one type of cerebrovascular disease threatening people in many countries. Upper extremity motor deficit is one of the main symptoms for stroke patients and elderly (Gowland et al., 1992). In order to restore upper extremity motor function, stroke patients must be treated with functional equipment. Most existing clinical upper extremity rehabilitation products provide no feedback to patients. The main reasons may be summarized as follows: (a) the devices are expensive; (b) the gaming interfaces are complicated for patients to independently operate the games without help from the therapists; (c) the games’ contents are designed for normal people and their leisure, not for stroke patients.
An Unsupervised Parametric Mixture Model for Automatic Cerebrovascular Segmentation
Published in Ayman El-Baz, Jasjit S. Suri, Cardiovascular Imaging and Image Analysis, 2018
Mohammed Ghazal, Yasmina Al Khalil, Ayman El-Baz
Cerebrovascular diseases represent one of the most frequent reasons for neurological emergencies and constitute a leading cause of many serious long-term disabilities [1]. About 75 percent of patients affected by cerebrovascular diseases have lost the ability to work by a certain degree and almost 40 percent of them are severely physically disabled [2]. Despite the advances in treatment throughout recent years, almost 30 percent of strokes result in death within a month, while 70–80 percent cause significant long-term disabilities. Thus, early diagnosis and detection of potential stroke risk factors and threats is critical for preventing permanent neurological damage, complications, and death [3], [4].
Usage Problems and Improvement Needs of the Clinical Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Devices in Taiwan: A Pilot Study
Published in Marcelo M. Soares, Franscisco Rebelo, Advances in Usability Evaulation, 2013
Huang Lan-Ling, Lee Chang-Franw, Chen Mei-Hsiang
Stroke is one type of the cerebrovascular disease threatening people in modern societies. The most common and widely recognized impairment caused by stroke is motor impairment. Occupational therapy is one way to help stroke patients to restore their upper extremity motor function. Up to 85% of stroke patients experience hemiparesis immediately after stroke, and between 55% and 75% of survivors continue to experience motor deficits associated with diminished quality of life (Saposnik et al., 2011). Many daily living tasks are performed by the upper extremity; therefore, rehabilitation treatment of upper extremity is very important for stroke patients. Rehabilitation device is an essential tool in the process of rehabilitation therapy. With it, the therapist plans a series of activities for the treatment, and the patient performs the assigned activities accordingly. Advantages and disadvantages of its use may affect the work quality of the therapist and the effectiveness of treatment for the patient. Therefore, rehabilitation devices must be designed with users in mind. Such products can increase acceptance, and improve quality of life (Jacobs, 2008).
Computation of retinal fundus parameters for stroke prediction
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 2020
Jeena Raveendran Susha, Sukeshkumar A, Mahadevan K
Stroke (Warlow et al. 2003) is a cerebrovascular disease affecting the normal blood flow to brain. A coagulation in the artery supplying blood to cerebrum results in ischaemic stroke and a burst of a blood vessel results in haemorrhagic stroke (Mozaffarian et al. 2015). Clearly, stroke has transformed from a disease pertaining to developed nations to a global risk (Feigin et al. 2017).