Watanabe Takuya, Tagawa Yoshihiko, Nagasue Eiichiro, Shiba Naoto
Graduate School of the Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui-cho, Tobata-ku, Kitakyusyu-shi, Fukuoka, 804-0550, Japan.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009;2009:662-5. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333812.
This paper describes a new surface electrical stimulation approach to the production of task-oriented functional hand and finger movements in people with upper extremity paralysis as the result of brain or spinal cord injury. The approach involves the need to first identify ("map") the distribution of the optimal electrical stimulation sites. Multi-channel electrical surface stimulation is then applied to obtain the desired motions. We describe here the grasping of a paper cup by the hand and three-digit pinching induced by this approach in a healthy subject as well as the results of a training trial in two adults with C6-level spinal cord injury.
本文描述了一种新的表面电刺激方法，用于使因脑损伤或脊髓损伤而导致上肢瘫痪的患者产生面向任务的功能性手部和手指运动。该方法首先需要识别（“绘制”）最佳电刺激部位的分布。然后应用多通道表面电刺激来获得所需的动作。我们在此描述了一名健康受试者通过这种方法实现的手持纸杯抓取动作和三指捏取动作，以及两名C6级脊髓损伤成年人的训练试验结果。
