Enabling Professional Intervention Points for the Process of Stroke Rehabilitation
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2023-05
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The Ohio State University
Abstract
The Replay system is a digital stroke rehabilitation system developed as a partnership project with Battelle for work surrounding their Neurolife sleeve. Strokes affect over 795,000 people in the US each year. Rehabilitation is crucial for survivor's quality of life with efforts likely to be a life-long undertaking. To incentivize and aid with rehabilitation, Replay is a gamified rehabilitation strategy aimed at promoting the engagement of users with their rehabilitation through fun and play in the form of hobbies and activities of daily living utilizing the Neurolife sleeve as its basis.
The need for a system such as Replay was identified from a combination of primary and secondary research surrounding strokes and the Neurolife sleeve and was developed through the process of codesign with several occupational therapists. Through the codesigned activities, Replay features a series of gamified play options that merge various hobbies such as gardening, cooking, etc. with actual rehabilitation activities to engage a user in fun and play. It additionally features a smart toolkit in which users can pick up and engage with in order to correlate digital prompts to physical sensations such as touch and strength.
The Neurolife sleeve communicates and aids in the various actions prompted by the Replay system in order to detect movement intention and electrically stimulate muscles in order to assist users through the prompted action. As users engage with the Replay system and the Neurolife sleeve, they will increase the likelihood of regaining lost arm functionality with increased use and practice. Activities and data of engagement sessions will be recorded and sent to the user's occupational therapist for review and feedback so that the user's rehabilitation program can be adjusted for their specific needs and changing conditions.
The Replay system presents a means of guiding and assisting users through numerous therapy exercises alongside the Battelle Neurolife Sleeve and is a meaningful and effective means of promoting and helping the numerous stroke survivors throughout their entire rehabilitation and recovery process.
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2nd Place in Engineering & Technology at the 2023 Undergraduate Research Forum
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Stroke Rehabilitation, Stroke, Rehabilitation Program, Codesign, Neurolife Sleeve