Wamkelekile, Welkom
Helping hand for stroke patients
09 November 2010
A group of scientists at UCT, led by Dr
Lester John of the MRC/UCT Medical
Imaging Research Unit, is developing
an electromyogram-controlled
hand-finger orthosis that will be used
to assist in the rehabilitation of stroke patients experiencing hand-finger
muscle flaccidity.
A novel method of acquiring deep muscle EMG using surface electrodes has also been developed and provisionally patented.
This method and device will allow the recording of EMG from deep muscles that were previously only accessible using invasive needle or fine-wire electrodes.
Furthermore, it will allow these deep muscles to be used to control biomechatronic orthoses and prostheses.
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