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T1 Myoelectric gaming in the rehabilitation of patients with C7 spinal cord injury
A1 Rosa Steinz, Ramón de la
A1 Carrera, Albano
A1 Alonso Alonso, Alonso
A1 Peñasco Martín, Benito
A1 Gil Agudo, Angel
A1 Abril Domingo, Evaristo José
K1 Spinal cord injury
K1 Rehabilitation
K1 Electromyography
K1 Myoelectric control
K1 Biofeedback
K1 33 Ciencias Tecnológicas
K1 32 Ciencias Médicas
AB This paper analyses the role of myoelectric games in the rehabilitation of paraplegic patients. The University of Valladolid neuromuscular training system, UVa-NTS platform, which allows the myoelectric command of computer applications, has been introduced in rehabilitation sessions of a group of paraplegic patients. The experiments took place both at the University of Valladolid and at the National Hospital for Paraplegics of Toledo in Spain. A homogeneous population of five patients with a C7 spinal cord injury was compared with a group of control subjects. The myoelectric control was performed with the flexor carpi radialis and the extensor carpi radialis muscles. The myoelectric routines were timed and the game scores measured. Notwithstanding the reduced mobility of the patients, they achieved fast adaptation and better timings than the control subjects in the first experiment (p < 0.001), although this difference was reduced in further experiments. Both patients and control subjects played satisfactorily with the Myo-Pong game. However, the improvement in the scores was better for the control subjects between sessions (p = 0.009) when compared with the patients (p = 0.978). The results show that patients and control subjects were able to perform and reached similar scores. However, patients’ improvement in further rehabilitation sessions was lesser than when compared with the control subjects.
PB MDPI
SN 2076-3417
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52364
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52364
LA eng
NO Applied Sciences, 2019, vol. 9, n. 9, p.1912.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 19-may-2024