Kinematic and Corticomuscular Monitoring and Analysis Platform for Patients with Stroke during Upper Extremity Mirror Rehabilitation

Functional assessment of upper extremity provides a probe to severity, motor recovery, and prediction. Clinical motor assessment is based on the scoring of the behavior responses such as the capability, time-to-complete, dexterity, resistance-to-stretch, and so on. Myo-electricity (kinetic) analysis and kinematic analysis during executing specific tasks provide a dynamic evaluation of motor functions. Upper extremity mirror rehabilitation is recently used to let patients to move their affected arms by seeing the motions of the unaffected arms. This is demonstrated to be useful in motor function improvement but fewer researches are related to the kinetic and kinematic analyses between affected and unaffected arms and corticomuscular manipulation during rehabilitation. This proposal aims to develop a cerebral-motor evaluation platform based on kinematics. corticomuscular coherence (CMC) and event-related desynchronization (ERD) for mirror rehabilitation. In the first year, a Labview-based video camera system with kinematic data will be built for upper-extremity kinematic analysis during simulated mirror training. Meanwhile, the kinematic signals, electromyograms, electroencephalograms are simultaneously acquired by a Neuroscan brain machine for CMC and ERD analyses. In the second year, wireless electromyogram devices and a wireless electroencephalogram device will be incorporated the Labview-based camera system. Kinematic, CMC, and ERD analysis will be applied to evaluate the cerebral-motor functions of the patients with stroke during mirror rehabilitation.

Project ID:PB10508-0345
External Project ID:MOST105-2221-E182-035