BCI–VR-Based Hand Soft Rehabilitation System with Its Applications in Hand Rehabilitation After Stroke

The recovery of hand motor function can effectively improve the living standard of stroke patients and relieve their psychological anxiety. Traditional physical rehabilitation training is unable to target the cause of motor function loss; therefore, the rehabilitation effect is not ideal. The object...

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Published inInternational journal of precision engineering and manufacturing Vol. 24; no. 8; pp. 1403 - 1424
Main Authors Gao, Nuo, Chen, Pengcheng, Liang, Lihua
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Seoul Korean Society for Precision Engineering 01.08.2023
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Cerebral cortex
Engineering
Hand (anatomy)
Human motion
Human-computer interface
Industrial and Production Engineering
Materials Science
Muscle strength
Regular Paper
Rehabilitation
Virtual reality
Hand rehabilitation
sEMG
EEG
Brain–computer interface
Virtual reality
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Summary:The recovery of hand motor function can effectively improve the living standard of stroke patients and relieve their psychological anxiety. Traditional physical rehabilitation training is unable to target the cause of motor function loss; therefore, the rehabilitation effect is not ideal. The objective of this study is to propose a hand rehabilitation system combining brain–computer interface (BCI), soft hand rehabilitation glove and virtual reality (VR), and explore its effectiveness on hand movement disorders in stroke patients. The corresponding comparison experiments conducted on 11 stroke patients demonstrated that the proposed BCI-based hand rehabilitation system can not only mobilize more cerebral cortex to participate in the process of hand motor rehabilitation, but also enhance the muscle strength, muscle tension, and improve the hand motor dysfunction of stroke patients.
ISSN:2234-7593
2005-4602
DOI:10.1007/s12541-023-00835-2