SpastoPro: Portable Neurorehab Device for fine motor control
Description
In India, each year, about 1.8 million people suffer a stroke. Eighty percent of all stroke patients experience some level of Upper limb spasticity.
While timely treatment can reverse most effects of stroke, fine motor movement such as the one required by fingers is difficult to reverse completely. Most chronic cases reach a dead end after recovering about 70%. However, the remaining 30% fine motor movement greatly affects their activities of daily living (ADLs). Learned non-use t...
In India, each year, about 1.8 million people suffer a stroke. Eighty percent of all stroke patients experience some level of Upper limb spasticity.
While timely treatment can reverse most effects of stroke, fine motor movement such as the one required by fingers is difficult to reverse completely. Most chronic cases reach a dead end after recovering about 70%. However, the remaining 30% fine motor movement greatly affects their activities of daily living (ADLs). Learned non-use thereafter leads to further muscle wasting.
Currently, most physiotherapy clinics perform these exercises manually. With manual therapy, it is possible to recover shoulder, elbow, and wrist movements to a large extent. However, fine finger movement is the hardest to recover. And yet, it is the most critical movement to perform activities of daily living. Some physiotherapists claim that a minimum of 10000 cycles is needed to regain the fine-motor movement of fingers. These exercises are tiring for the therapist and the patient causing a loss of motivation and adherence in both. And this is where precisely that automation is needed.
Organization
Alabaster Research and Technologies Private Limited
Budget
8 lakhs
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Innovation
SpastoPro is a portable and powered neurorehab device to be used on stroke patients for improvement in fine-motor control of their fingers and wrists. SpastoPro helps physiotherapists and occupational therapists to ensure that patients have greater adherence to functional therapy. It greatly reduces the drudgery experienced by physiotherapists in flexion and extension exercises of fingers and wrists.
Timeline
Pilots
We have conducted trials of multiple prototypes with physiotherapists and are developing the MVP.
Location(s)
Ahmedabad, India
Website
https://www.alabasterresearch.com
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Sustainable Development Goals
This solution addresses the following problems.
Need for improved stroke rehabilitation therapy practices.
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