• DocumentCode
    2585630
  • Title

    A numerical hand model for a virtual glove rehabilitation system

  • Author

    Franchi, Danilo ; Maurizi, Alfredo ; Placidi, Giuseppe

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Health Sci., Univ. of L´´Aquila, L´´Aquila, Italy
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    29-30 May 2009
  • Firstpage
    41
  • Lastpage
    44
  • Abstract
    Hand rehabilitation, following stroke or hand surgery, is a repetitive and long duration therapy that can be facilitated with the assistance of gloves based on sensors. These devices can be substituted by a simple and inexpensive system based on the images acquired by 4 cameras and numerical analysis. In this paper we present a numerical hand model used in this system which describes the kinematic of the hand. Preliminary experimental data to test the proposed model have also been reported.
  • Keywords
    patient rehabilitation; surgery; hand surgery; numerical hand model; stroke; virtual glove rehabilitation system; Cameras; Fingers; Force measurement; Image reconstruction; Joints; Kinematics; Mathematical model; Medical treatment; Numerical analysis; Numerical models; hand rehabilitation; numerical hand model; virtual glove;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Medical Measurements and Applications, 2009. MeMeA 2009. IEEE International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Cetraro
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3598-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3599-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MEMEA.2009.5167951
  • Filename
    5167951