Experts have developed a prosthetic arm that helps patients regain hand movements after being temporarily paralyzed due to strokes.
A statement issued by the press service of the Russian Tomsk Medical University said: The prosthetic arm consists of two sections: a section that contains devices capable of copying information about the movement of the patient’s healthy hand, and a section that is used to move the injured hand and repeat the movements of the healthy hand. This technology helps restore nerve connections. With the part of the brain that is damaged after a stroke.
The statement added that the new prosthetic arm can not only replicate the movements of the patient’s healthy hand, but also helps the patient perform some additional home exercises for the affected hand, which speeds up his recovery process.
Dmitry Zhdanov, director of the CyberMed Laboratory at Tomsk Medical University, said: “We are currently looking for partners to continue developing the project and using the system in medical institutions. We are currently still in the development stages of the prosthetic arm, and the tests we conducted on the model of this arm showed the validity of our ideas and the effectiveness of the new technology.”