Self-Assisted Upper Limb Rehabilitation Devices, A Comprehensive Review

Abstract

For the purpose of Upper Limb rehabilitation, the use of mechanical and robot assisted rehabilitation the rapiesarenota new concept. Such system sallow patients to perform the rapies with minimalorno assistance. The complexity of such systems vary from being as simple as a custom made bars to highly so phisticated roboticexo skeletons. The advancement of robotics and motor control mechanisms has fueled interest in this domain and we see a lot of development in the field of robot assisted rehabilitation with in a comparatively short span of time. This paper presents a review and tabulates the results of a few selected rehabilitation devices. The devices include mechanical as well as intelligent robotics based rehabilitation devices.