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A Wearable Vibration Glove for Improving Hand Sensation in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury Using Passive Haptic Rehabilitation

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259137,
        author={Tanya Estes and Deborah Backus and Thad Starner},
        title={A Wearable Vibration Glove for Improving Hand Sensation in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury Using Passive Haptic Rehabilitation},
        journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web},
        volume={2},
        number={6},
        publisher={EAI},
        journal_a={EW},
        year={2015},
        month={8},
        keywords={haptic, rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, sci, vibration},
        doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259137}
    }
    
  • Tanya Estes
    Deborah Backus
    Thad Starner
    Year: 2015
    A Wearable Vibration Glove for Improving Hand Sensation in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury Using Passive Haptic Rehabilitation
    EW
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259137
Tanya Estes1,*, Deborah Backus2, Thad Starner3
  • 1: United States Military Academy
  • 2: The Shepherd Center
  • 3: Georgia Institute of Technology
*Contact email: tanya.t.estes@gmail.com

Abstract

We define Passive Haptic Rehabilitation (PHR) as an improvement in haptic sensations or abilities using methods which require little or no attention on the part of the user. We present a study that suggests improvement in hand sensation in participants with partial Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) in C4 - T1 after use of our Mobile Music Touch (MMT) glove. The MMT glove is designed to teach piano melodies passively. It stimulates the participant's fingers repeatedly in the order of notes in the songs to be learned. In a study of ten hands, seven people with incomplete SCI participate in simple piano lessons three times a week for thirty minutes a session for eight weeks. The experimental group also attends these lessons but also wear our Mobile Music Touch (MMT) glove for two hours a day, five times a week to reinforce these lessons passively. Participants were injured over a year before the beginning of the study. The Semmes-Weinstein test is used to measure sensation at eight points on the hand before and after the piano lessons. The mean improvements between the experimental group and control group show a difference that is statistically significant. All hand areas in the experimental group show an improvement in average Semmes-Weinstein scores.

Keywords
haptic, rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, sci, vibration
Published
2015-08-03
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259137

Copyright © 2015 T. Estes et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.

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