Touch - Hand Sensory Rehabilitation Device: A rehabilitative tool to help recover sensory function in hands

Touch – Hand Sensory Rehabilitation Device(The University of Texas at Dallas)

Nicole K. Aragon, Mallory Bing, Jamie Kunnappally, Grace McFarland, Michelle Toro 

Touch - Hand Sensory Rehabilitation Device: A rehabilitative tool to help recover sensory function in handsThe purpose of this project is to develop a system capable of delivering therapy to restore sensory function in the hands of patients who have had a stroke. Our team’s solution is a dome shaped device that will test a patient’s sensory functions through a force and a two-point discrimination test. Initially, the therapist will determine the patient’s threshold for feeling a force by raising a point inside the device up to their finger with increasing force until the patient feels it. Then the therapist will determine the patient’s threshold to discriminate between two points by raising two points within the device to the patient’s finger, and increasing the distance between the two points until the patient can feel distinct, separate points. This device, along with vagus nerve stimulation therapy will rehabilitate sensory function in the patient’s hand. Regaining sensory function will allow people affected stroke to start regaining control of their everyday life, from answering their phone to making a cup of coffee.

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