About.We are a Washington University in St. Louis design team developing a device to help stroke rehabilitation in the upper extremities with biofeedback.
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Our Need Statement
Given the lack of biofeedback currently utilized for upper extremity rehabilitation, there is a need to provide visual, auditory, and/or tactile biofeedback for rehabilitation among adult patients with a recent stroke that will strive to improve rehabilitation success rate and speed of recovery.
Our Project Scope
There is a need to provide biofeedback to patients afflicted with weakness in the upper extremities during the stroke rehabilitation process. We propose to deliver a device that will detect and utilize movement from the patient’s afflicted wrist and fingers as an input and outputs audio, tactile, and/or visual feedback. The device will provide quantifiable data for therapists and patients to refer to as a source of progress tracking that will aim to improve rehabilitation success rate and speed of recovery. This device will not cause injury to the patient and will be used by occupational therapists as they assist patients with their recovery and/or patients who can use the device alone. A prototype of this device along with the software and instructions manual will be delivered in a useable form by April 23rd.
Our Team
Galen Cheng
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Olivia Williams
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Chris Zhang
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Our ClientDr. Alexandre Carter MD PhD
Associate Professor, Neurology Division of Rehabilitation |