Telerehabilitation for Fingers and Wrist Using a Hand Rehabilitation Support System and Robot Hand

Abstract Therapists create rehabilitation programs for patients to help them recover from and mitigate their lost abilities. This paper proposes a novel hand telerehabilitation system. The system consists of a hand rehabilitation support system for the patient, an anthropomorphic robot hand for the therapist, and a remote monitoring system for diagnosing the degree of recovery. The therapist applies the force to the robot hand. The force is then transmitted to the patient using the rehabilitation support system. An advanced robot hand and remote monitoring system using virtual reality technology have been developed. Specifications of the robot hand are shown. The safety of the system was demonstrated experimentally for healthy persons.

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