Achievement

The Mixed Reality Rehabilitation interdisciplinary group is currently running a clinical study comparing their adaptive mixed reality rehabilitation (AMRR) system for reaching and grasping to traditional upper-arm repetitive task therapy at the Rhodes Rehabilitation Clinic at Banner Medical Center. The team has completed therapy with 7 stroke survivors in the AMRR group and 5 stroke survivors in the traditional rehab group. Preliminary results show that those trained with the AMRR system improved their kinematic performance and clinical assessments more than those trained with traditional rehab. The team has also been working on related projects, including creating a computational evaluation framework based on arm, hand and torso kinematics, translating our knowledge from the clinical study to developing a home-based AMRR system and using neurological and neuromuscular signal monitoring to further investigate the physiological basis for the improvements in movement performance.