Development and control of a 3DOF upper-limb robotic device for patients with paretic limb impairment

• Main Authors: Fatai, Sado, Sidek, Shahrul Na'im, Md. Yusof, Hazlina, Hafiz, Latif M., Babawuro, Adamu Y.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN) 2015
• Subjects: TA164 Bioengineering
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/47310/1/IJCAS_vo_4-no3.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/47310/; http://www.arpnjournals.org/jeas/research_papers/rp_2015/jeas_1215_3176.pdf

Rehabilitation therapy after stroke is crucial to helping patients regain as much as possible the use of their paretic limbs. The major challenges, however, in conventional post-stroke rehabilitation therapy is that the therapy is labour intensive, time demanding, and therefore, expen...