Development of a biofeedback device for recovery of hand functions
Project goals:
- Develop a biofeedback device for rehabilitation and better motor activity of hand, to allow more effective rehabilitation procedures in real time for patients with affection of the central nervous system.
- Create a unique puppet playing method based on the device to be developed.
- Develop differentiated methods for recovery of finger movements in various pathogenetic cases of impaired hand functions.
Expected results:
- Development and construction of a competitive and high-tech biofeedback device to develop the motor activity of hand.
- Reduced rehabilitation time for patients with superior limb movement and coordination disorders.
- Improved quality of rehabilitation, particularly in pediatric practice, by using a playing method. The synergy of psychotherapeutic and functional methods can make application of the operating kinematic model extended to treat children with emotional problems.
- Saving of expenses for drugs and less likelihood of the side effects due to drug treatment.
The expected social effect is determined by a more emotionally colored rehabilitation within a shorter period of time, the ability to personally form the biofeedback signal by a puppet, and improvement in the quality of rehabilitation and therefore the life quality of patients.
We welcome foreign collaborators and partners to this project, whose involvement could be very good for:
- discussion and better definition of the project tasks;
- discussion of the progress and testing of the device and associated methods.
We invite medical personnel for extensive preclinical testing of the prototype and clinical trials of the device.
We invite the teachers at special-care preschool institutions and schools to cooperate for proof testing of the device during correction exercises.For more information click here.