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Major stroke-affected persons suffer with a poorly operating hemiparetic broad palm (metacarpus), and require treatments that include physical therapy directed with intense activity and movement. This paper presents a novel finger exoskeleton device to facilitate therapy exercises while keeping it lightweight, compact, and affordable. The self-operated exoskeleton is designed to assist finger flexion and extension motions for the restoration of voluntary function, which is driven using servos and string mechanism, and controlled using the mobile application. Testing results show that this wearable finger exoskeleton can produce required torque to flex each finger toward the broad palm for rehabilitation with 90% accuracy.
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Snekhalatha, U., Muppidi, S.H.V., Akkiraju, L.S. (2022). A Wearable Finger Exoskeleton for Motor Rehabilitation Using Mobile Application. In: Thakkar, F., Saha, G., Shahnaz, C., Hu, YC. (eds) Proceedings of the International e-Conference on Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1370. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2123-9_2
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