Working under Professor Rosaire Mongrain as part of their department’s fourth-year capstone course, Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students Khaled El-Badawi, Oubai El Kerdi, Mahdi Taha and Karine Terzibachi have designed and built a prototype glove that has the potential to enable stroke victims to engage in rehabilitative exercises from the comfort of their home –– while having their progress monitored remotely by a physician or therapist. The sensor glove works by tracking wrist, finger and hand movements while the wearer plays computer video games that can help rebuild strength and dexterity in areas that were affected by stroke. Read more
Read more →(Relaxnews) – Une start-up américaine installée à Cambridge, dans le Massachusetts, a conçu une attelle neuro-robotique qui vise à venir en aide aux patients ayant connu une perte de motricité. Le mPower 1000 est un appareil conçu par Myomo, Inc, une start-up de douze employés. La société compte présenter le produit au colloque/salon annuel de l’American Occupational Therapy Association (Association américaine d’ergothérapie), qui se tiendra du 14 au 17 avril à Philadelphie. Read more
Read more →What would you say if people could receive better rehabilitation therapy following a stroke while at the same time having to make fewer trips to the hospital? This is what Justin Tan aspired to do when he started developing a virtual stroke recovery device. Six years later, he has come up with an innovative product that could potentially be used in hospitals all over the world. Read more here…
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Dear subscribers, On behalf of the entire Jintronix team, I would like to thank you for your interest in and support of our company. From what began as a grassroots effort to address the growing need for physical rehabilitative services in developing countries, we have expanded quickly to include 9 core members, numerous students, a team of PhD graduates, as well as several very notable clinical, business, and marketing advisors and associates. More importantly, our R&D team has made steady progress on our first hardware and software prototype VR system, the JRS1, and it encompasses features and algorithms that have the potential to truly revolutionize both the quality and delivery of rehabilitative services that are available today. I am extremely excited with the progress that we have made thus far, and it is a testament to both the scope and vision of our project that the best is yet to
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In this introductory article, I would like to give you a brief synopsis of how Jintronix came to be. Incidentally, the concept of developing rehabilitative technologies was initially fueled by my own personal encounter after my father suffered an ischemic stroke while on a flight from New York to Paris that left him completely paralyzed on the left side of his body. Through months of grueling and tedious rehabilitation regiments, he slowly but surely regained his lost mobility, but not without sacrifice. Besides the tremendous burden and inconvenience that accompanied taking my father to and from the rehabilitation facility several times a week, as well as sheer difficulty of maintaining his motivation through the tedious and unimaginative exercise regiments, the most discouraging aspect of the experience was the sheer difficulty for him to get the necessary care that he required, simply because of the lack of resources and clinical staff
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