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Developing an Innovative System for Upper Limb Diagnosis and Rehabilitation

Figure 1: The figure shows the analysis panel. It reports the main extracted parameters such as performed trajectories; speed, acceleration and jerk profiles, directional error, linear error, time error, and so on.

"The system is easy to use and does not require particular technical expertise."

- A. Novellino, ETT

The Challenge:
Creating an innovative, inexpensive, and easy-to-use system to perform clinical diagnosis and rehabilitation of upper limb movement, supervise pharmacological therapy, and study learning processes.

The Solution:
Using NI LabWindows™/CVI software to develop a commercially available instrument to perform and study shoulder-elbow movements. We developed an inexpensive and easy-to-use system to perform upper limb analysis for diagnosis and rehabilitation for patients with degenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and/or stroke patients. Our system, the Motor Task Manager (MTM), provides an innovative way to perform upper limb analysis because no similar systems are commercially available. Generally, shoulder-elbow motion analysis is achieved using very expensive stereoscopic instrumentation or less accurate goniometric devices.

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