Stroke rehab glove combines mental practice and muscle stimulation to improve hand function

Medcitynews.: September 12, 2012

Recovering stroke patients may soon have a new device to help them work on regaining control of their hands without help from a physical therapist.

It’s a medical device in the form of a glove, and the company making it wants to actively engage the brains of these patients to help reestablish the neural connections between the brain and muscles in the hand.

The glove, being developed by HandMinder, includes a set of programmable micro-motors that sits on the wrist and sends sequences of vibrations to the fingers and wrist. The idea is that those vibrations would trigger the brain to send movement signal to the right muscles. Read more