TY - GEN
T1 - Damping TENS-Induced Essential Tremor Symptoms in Activities of Daily Living Using the TuMove Wrist Exoskeleton
AU - Garcia-Hizuera, Jose Arturo
AU - Paredes-Acuna, Natalia
AU - Le, Thien
AU - Auclair, Benoit
AU - Tomaskovic, Klara
AU - Berberich, Nicolas
AU - Cheng, Gordon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Essential Tremor (ET) is the most frequent movement disorder in adults. Upper-limb exoskeletons are a promising solution to alleviate ET symptoms. We propose a novel wrist exoskeleton for tremor damping. The TuMove exoskeleton is light-weight, portable, easy to use, and designed for ADLs and activities requiring hand dexterity. We validated the effectiveness of our exoskeleton by inducing forearm tremors using TENS on 5 healthy subjects. Our results show that wrist ranges are generally kept in most of the ROM needed in ADLs. The damping system reduced more than 30% of the tremor's angular velocity during drinking and pouring tasks. Furthermore, the completion time of the Archimedes spiral was decreased by 2.76 seconds (13.0%) and for the 9-Hole-Peg-Test by 2.77 seconds (11.8 %), indicating a performance improvement in dexterity tasks.
AB - Essential Tremor (ET) is the most frequent movement disorder in adults. Upper-limb exoskeletons are a promising solution to alleviate ET symptoms. We propose a novel wrist exoskeleton for tremor damping. The TuMove exoskeleton is light-weight, portable, easy to use, and designed for ADLs and activities requiring hand dexterity. We validated the effectiveness of our exoskeleton by inducing forearm tremors using TENS on 5 healthy subjects. Our results show that wrist ranges are generally kept in most of the ROM needed in ADLs. The damping system reduced more than 30% of the tremor's angular velocity during drinking and pouring tasks. Furthermore, the completion time of the Archimedes spiral was decreased by 2.76 seconds (13.0%) and for the 9-Hole-Peg-Test by 2.77 seconds (11.8 %), indicating a performance improvement in dexterity tasks.
KW - Nine-Hole Peg Test
KW - TENS-induced tremor
KW - TETRAS
KW - digitised Archimedes spiral
KW - essential tremor
KW - gyroscope
KW - tremor damping
KW - wrist exoskeleton
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85176396155&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICORR58425.2023.10304605
DO - 10.1109/ICORR58425.2023.10304605
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 37941195
AN - SCOPUS:85176396155
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
BT - 2023 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2023
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2023 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2023
Y2 - 24 September 2023 through 28 September 2023
ER -