Iran-Made Smart Sensorimotor Glove Improves Patients' Movement
Amin Qorbani, a PhD student in Industrial Management at Islamic Azad University’s Tabriz branch, won the silver medal at the most prestigious American innovation festival (Innoverse 2024) with his invention of the smart rehabilitation glove.
“This innovative glove, using advanced technologies, helps patients improve their movements and rehabilitation, and is considered a major step in the advancement of the fields of medicine and rehabilitation,” Amin Qorbani said.
“The innovation of this glove lies in its software design and the addition of a marine sensor to it which can provide both the benefits of motor improvement and rehabilitation,” he added.
In a relevant development last year, researchers at Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) had also successfully designed and produced rehabilitation gloves using a soft robotic method.
“Nowadays, by developing rehabilitation robots, researchers seek to minimize the time and cost usually spent during the rehabilitation period,” Mohammad Mahdi Dalaei, a graduate from Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) and the project manager of "Designing and Implementing Rehabilitation Gloves."
“In Iran, due to the lack of rehabilitation centers and an aging population and patients who have suffered a stroke and the resulting disabilities, the need for a hand rehabilitation robot that can be used in the form of a product for the ordinary people was felt,” he added.
“In this research, it was decided to design and manufacture a light-weight and inexpensive rehabilitation glove to help people with a disabled hand,” he added.
“The product made in this project, due to the features considered for it, such as light-weight, bidirectional function (extending fingers) and mirror workout, could meet the needs of this research, which is to rehabilitate the hands of patients in all stages of rehabilitation,” the researcher continued.
He stated that polymer sheets and thermal stitching were used in making the glove, which is a new method in the production of soft robotic gloves. According to him, the design of the stitches of this glove is also a new method compared to previous researches.
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