TY - CHAP
T1 - The robotic sixth finger
T2 - a wearable compensatory tool to regain grasping capabilities in paretic hands
AU - Salvietti, Gionata
AU - Hussain, Irfan
AU - Prattichizzo, Domenico
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Dr. David Cioncoloni, Sabrina Taddei and Prof. Simone Rossi from the Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche, Chirurgiche e Neuroscienze, UOC Neu-rologia e Neurofisiologia Clinica, Brain Investigation & Neuromodulation Lab. (Si-BIN), Siena, Italy, for their suggestions and the help in recruiting and assisting the patients during the pilot experiments.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Among the most promising field of applications of wearable robotics there are the rehabilitation and the support in activities of daily living (ADL) of impaired people. In this paper, we propose two possible designs of a robotic extra-finger, the Robotic Sixth Finger, for grasping compensation in patients with reduced hand mobility, such as post-stroke patients. The idea is to let the patients be able to grasp an object by taking advantage of the wearable device worn on the paretic limb by means of an elastic band. The Robotic Sixth Finger and the paretic hand work jointly to hold an object. Adding a robotic opposing finger is a promising approach that can significantly improve the grasping functional compensation in different typologies of patients during everyday life activities.
AB - Among the most promising field of applications of wearable robotics there are the rehabilitation and the support in activities of daily living (ADL) of impaired people. In this paper, we propose two possible designs of a robotic extra-finger, the Robotic Sixth Finger, for grasping compensation in patients with reduced hand mobility, such as post-stroke patients. The idea is to let the patients be able to grasp an object by taking advantage of the wearable device worn on the paretic limb by means of an elastic band. The Robotic Sixth Finger and the paretic hand work jointly to hold an object. Adding a robotic opposing finger is a promising approach that can significantly improve the grasping functional compensation in different typologies of patients during everyday life activities.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-51532-8_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-51532-8_26
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85055037685
T3 - Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics
SP - 423
EP - 437
BT - Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
ER -