A New Rehabilitation Device for Finger Extension Movement

This paper focuses on the development of a device for hand rehabilitation that can perform the finger extension movement. Developing new rehabilitation systems and devices is necessary since the world population is ageing and spastic hand patients are increasing. This paper presents a new rehabilitation device that will overcome the limits of most existing rehabilitation mechanisms. Simulations of a conceived system conducted by a CAD code (PTC Creo) showed that the new adopted concepts can be applicable for the finger extension movement. The results are promising and the potential of the mechanism is believed to be significant. Nevertheless, experimentation on a real prototype will be necessary to fully validate the simulation promising results.