The NIHR CLAHRC YH TaCT theme are continuing to bring together academics, local and international
innovative industrial partners, engineers, designers, clinicians, stroke
survivors and carers to co-design, develop and implement new technologies to
facilitate self-managed post-stroke rehabilitation. Our projects include:
Emego: We have quantified and compared stroke upper-limb muscle activity and function with the Action
Research Arm Test (ARAT) and the Medical Research Council’s Oxford Grading
Scale.
Upper Limb (UL) Sensor: We have used an off the shelf sensor to measure
UL real-world UL movement over 96 hours with 30 chronic stroke survivors and 30
aged matched controls.
Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) modification: We
have added an item to the ARAT that involves using both hands to complete a
task and redesigned the test kit which has resulted in a test kit that is a
third of the size of the original and four times lighter (12kg to 3kg).
