Development of a novel finger and wrist rehabilitation robot for finger and wrist training

Abstract

Up to now, with the developments of society, aging problems are more serious. With the requirements of rehabilitation, a large of hemiplegia rehabilitation devices are launched out. But most of the hand training robots just limit to the fingers flexible training. They ignored the importance of functional training of hand, and ignore wrist cooperative training in the rehabilitation process. In this paper, a novel finger and wrist rehabilitation robot will be introduced for hemiplegia rehabilitation, a creative hand rehabilitation way is presented. Two rehabilitation units are included -wrist rehabilitation unit and hand rehabilitation unit. Novel torque sensor units with a simple structure are designed to detect torque. The detail of the sensor is introduced in the paper. The proposed finger and wrist rehabilitation robot leads to further research on the rehabilitation robot.