Rehabilitación Motivacional Asistida por Computadora con Dos Grados de Libertad para Personas con Hemiplejia A Two Degrees of Freedom Computer Assisted Motivational Rehabilitation for Hemiplegic

The first results obtained from the application of a two degrees of freedom palanca within a computer assisted motivational rehabilitation program is presented. The results were obtained from three rehabilitations centers located in Morelos, Oaxaca and Nayarit. The program has been in operation 8 months and 22 patients have been attended. In this work 2 results from two patients are presented: (1) a twenty seven year old young man with a arteriovenous malformation; and (2) a 12 years old female child with a cerebral vascular accident. Both patients started its rehabilitation two years after the lesion. For the young man, the results are presented based on a simplified, abbreviate version of the Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) with 8 points. Here the WMFT was administered to the young man at five and ten hours after commencing the trials with CAMR, finding quite positive improvements. The patient commented that "I was able to move my shoulder to touch my mum while driving" and started to use his left hand to eat aided with a rubber band. In the young women case, a clinical report is presented showing after 18 hours of therapy a good right shoulder and elbow control but null hand control. Both cases presented a substantial social and emotional improvement.