Brain plasticity, also known as neuroplasticity, is a term used by neuroscientists that refers to the brain's ability to change and grow at any age. This flexibility is critically important during our brain development and in shaping personalities.

Prior to the 1960s, scientists believed that changes in the brain only took place during infancy and childhood. Most believed that the brain's physical structure was permanent by adulthood. Modern research has concluded that the brain creates new neural pathways and alters existing ones to adapt to new experiences, create new memories, and learn new information, right up until the day we die.

Psychologist William James was the first to suggest (in 1890) that the brain was not as unchanging as formerly believed. In his book The Principles of Psychology, he wrote, "Organic matter, especially nervous tissue, seems endowed with a very extraordinary degree of plasticity." However, his idea was ignored for decades.

From the 1920s to the 1960s, researchers began to explore the creation of new neural pathways and followed cases where older adults suffering the aftermath of massive strokes were able to “regain functioning, demonstrating that the brain was much more malleable than previously believed.” Modern researchers have confirmed that the brain is able to rewire itself following damage.

Characteristics of Plasticity

There are a few defining characteristics of neuroplasticity:

It varies by age. Though plasticity is present for a lifetime, certain changes are more likely during specific ages.

Plasticity involves multiple neural processes. Plasticity never stops and always involves brain cells besides neurons, like glial and vascular cells.

Plasticity happens for two different reasons.

1. As a result of learning, experience, and memory formation
2. As a result of damage to the brain.

The brain never stops changing in response to learning. In cases of damage to the brain, the areas of the brain associated with certain functions may be damaged; but, healthy parts of the brain may take over those functions and the abilities can be restored.

Environment and genetics both have an influence on plasticity. The stimulation and sensory input of the environment will have a direct effect on how the brain grows and changes. Similarly, if you have a genetic predisposition toward learning, you are more likely to take in and retain information and skills more quickly.

There are two types of neuroplasticity:

• Functional plasticity: The brain's ability to move functions from a damaged area of the brain to other undamaged areas.
• Structural plasticity: The brain's ability to actually change its physical structure as a result of learning.

Both types of plasticity can be harnessed to improve our brains.

Ways To Harness Plasticity

With the right circumstances, the power of brain plasticity can help adult minds grow. Although certain brain functions decay with age, people can tap into plasticity and refresh the brain.

Targeted brain plasticity exercises help to keep our brains fit. Even those suffering from brain damage may be able to retrain their brains for better function. The key is identifying what brain functions to target and how to best exercise them.

Researchers suggest that there are various methods of harnessing brain plasticity:

Intermittent Fasting
The Society for Neuroscience suggests that fasting increases synaptic plasticity, decreases risk of neurodegenerative diseases, promotes neuron growth and improves cognitive function. When you fast, a metabolic shift reduces the body’s leptin levels. Thus, the brain receives a chemical signal for neurons to produce more energy.

Travel
Traveling encourages neurogenesis by exposing your brain to new, fresh, and complex environments. Paul Nussbaum, a neuropsychologist from the University of Pittsburgh explains, “Those new and challenging situations cause the brain to sprout dendrites.” And a week-long tour of another country isn’t necessary to get this benefit; take a weekend road trip to a different city.

Use Mnemonic Devices
Memory training promotes connectivity in your brain’s prefrontal parietal network and can slow memory loss with age. Mnemonic devices combine visualization, imagery, spatial navigation, and rhythm and melody, so they can reach various parts of the brain simultaneously.

Learn an Instrument
Musicians’ brains show sharp connectivity between brain areas. Neuroscientists explain that the multi-sensory experience of playing a musical instrument allows for the association of motor actions with specific sounds, and memorizing visual patterns leads to new neural networks being formed. As you practice a new instrument, the repetition will allow for neuroplasticity to do its work.

Non-Dominant Hand Exercises
Using your non-dominant hand during routine tasks can help form new neural pathways. Doing this strengthens connectivity between your brain cells. Studies also show that non-dominant hand activities improve emotional health and impulse control. Try switching hands during some simple tasks and give your brain a test.

Read Fiction
Studies show increased and ongoing connectivity in the brains of participants after reading a novel. Enhanced brain activity occurred in the brain area that controls physical sensations and movement. Scientists explain that reading a novel can be a physical transportation into the fictional world. Shifting into this mental state is crucial for learning how to have complex social relationships.

Expand your Vocabulary
When you learn new words, the brain’s visual processes, memory processes, and auditory processes activate. The smaller your vocabulary, the more likely you are to have poor cognitive skills.
Sleep
Studies show that sleep “helps learning retention with the growth of dendritic spines, the tiny protrusions that connect brain cells and facilitates the passage of information across synapses.” Getting 7-8 hours of sleep each night will help the brain retain information.

How Exactly Does Plasticity Improve the Mind?

In his book, Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life, Dr. Michael Merzenich, a leading pioneer in brain plasticity research and co-founder of Posit Science, lists ten core principles necessary for the remodeling of your brain to take place:

1. Change is mostly limited to situations in which the brain is in the mood for it. If you are engaged, your brain will be too.
2. Be more motivated and more alert. Those intensely focused on the task and devoted to mastering something will experience greater change.
3. The strengths of the connections of neurons that are engaged together, moment by moment, are actually what changes.
4. Learning-motivated changes in connections increase cell-to-cell cooperation.
5. The brain strengthens its connections between teams of neurons when things occur in the same order over time.
6. Though the first brain changes are temporary, changes become permanent if your brain judges the experience to be worthy of remembrance.
7. Brain changes happen through internal mental rehearsal just as physical rehearsal in the real world helps us learn and execute specific tasks.
8. Memory is the key to learning. When you learn a new skill, your brain notes the good, the bad, and the ugly. The most recent good try is the one that the brain remembers.
9. When your brain strengthens a connection in advancing your mastery of a task, it weakens unnecessary connections of neurons that weren’t used.
10. Brain plasticity can go either way; you can generate negative changes just as easily as positive changes.

Maintaining Plasticity

We can understand that the brain is designed to be stimulated and challenged, to carefully examine and interpret the environment, and keep track of the details, all of which is necessary for survival.

But, people in society tend to remove themselves from details of life. They don’t keep track of things in their heads anymore; they use smartphones with speed dial, address books, and reminder features. They rely on GPS rather than paying attention to street signs and navigation skills.

As we age, we go from the acquisition of abilities to using the abilities acquired earlier in life. We operate on autopilot. The skills and tasks we have mastered are done simply by rote. We are largely disengaged.

Modern culture has reduced stimulation on the functional level, while we engage ourselves at an abstract level of operations. Details no longer matter and our brains are deteriorating as a result. As we continue to disengage from the simple act of memory recall, we are letting our brain plasticity lie dormant.

But, it is more than possible to maintain plasticity as we age. Humans have the ability to learn new things, master new skills or learn new languages, even into old age. This example of neuroplasticity will most likely involve structural and biochemical changes at the level of the synapse.

Adult brains remember new activities through repetition. When an enriched and stimulating environment is offered to a damaged brain, recovery can occur. Not everyone will be able to recover, however. The amount of brain damage and the treatments and rehabilitation will be the key to engaging neuroplasticity.

Conclusion

The brain is an amazing source of skill, memory, and functionality. Its ability to continuously improve functionally and structurally make human beings one of the most sophisticated creatures on the planet.

We all have the power to train, modify, and heal our own brains through hard work, focused effort, and a belief in the power of the mind.

Here is a great rehabilitation device for engaging neuroplasticity. The Learning Schedule algorithm automatically adjusts the difficulty level based on the patient’s range of motion and goals. This ensures the patient stays challenged throughout training, and at the same time, creates a positive, encouraging environment. The system monitors the performance data and generates progress reports. Visit our website and get more information.

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Serious Games are games with an additional purpose other than its original objective which is the seeking of enjoyment. By adding some austere elements to the game, it aims to produce-substantial effects in certain areas. It is utilized in various fields such as education, medical service, public, and advertising. Among these, education and medical services account for the largest portion. This is because learning a foreign language or medical technology is an easy field to verify the objectivity of substantial effects.

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Recently, numerous serious games have emerged, highlighting the positive traits of games. One of these is ‘Math Farm’, a math calculation mobile game for elementary school students. Some elementary school students tend to give up on mathematics since elementary school, as they feel boredom or difficulty in solving arithmetic. Still, it is needed for them to learn the arithmetic operations naturally in the education field. In Math Farm, the player will be able to cultivate and harvest crops and sell them in stores through the virtual farm management system in the game, thereby naturally acquainting arithmetic. Serious games allow oneself to be educated unpretentiously while dimming his or her disinclination.

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Games are being actively utilized in the medical field as well. NEOFECT has developed the RAPAEL Smart Glove that helps the rehabilitation of patients with injured finger joints or muscles, caused by central nervous system diseases such as by traffic accidents or strokes. With the smart glove in his hand, the patient completes the games watching the screen, performing rehabilitation exercise. By combining game into rehabilitation that can be boring, it encourages the patient to continue the rehabilitation effort.

In this process, one will be given appropriate exercise tasks and he will be able to follow the previous simple and repetitive rehabilitation actions with more delightfully. In addition, with more than 40 different games, it helps to separate each movement and help rehabilitate patients suitably as they select the game and enjoy. This is a good example of serious games as it also shares the aim in creating joy while performing rehabilitation. The RAPAEL solution allows patients to rehabilitate independently at home. The RAPAEL series is composed of products including hand, shoulder, arm and even products that can accomplish cognitive rehabilitation. Visit RAPAEL Home website to earn more information or to get counseling.

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NEOFECT’s RAPAEL Smart Rehabilitation Solutions provide rehabilitation and training through games for patients recovering from medical episodes like stroke, brain injury, hemiplegia, and so on. Are you curious about the games? So let me introduce you thee games of RAPAEL Smart Glove. Wondering what games are available? So let me introduce three games for RAPAEL Smart Glove, which are RAPAEL Solutions' representative product.

<1> Jewel Pong

Jewel Pong is the game that aims to eliminate all the jewels by hitting the approaching balls.


Training Methods

1. Move the platform by using Wrist Flexion / Extension movements. Rally the ball back towards the jewels by controlling the position of the platform.

2. Once the ball is blocked with the platform, it is sent towards the jewels, eliminating them as it hits.

3. Red beads appear when the sparkling jewels are eliminated. Extra balls are rewarded by hitting the beads with the platform.

4. As you advance to higher levels, the platform moves farther and farther away from the center of the screen.

Training Results

• Score
• Play Time
• Success Rate
• Wrist Flexion/Extension(Eliminated Gravity) ROM

<2> Rockin’ Beats

Rockin’ Beats is the training game that aim to improve your memory function by rocking’ the instruments.


Training Methods

1. Use the Forearm Pronation / Supination motion to move the drumsticks. If an instrument needs to be repeated, return to the starting position before hitting again.
   

2. Remember the order of the instruments shown in the given time. Time varies based on the number of instruments shown.
   

3. Play the instruments in the order remembered. If the order is wrong, it will be incorrect. Complete the given task even if there is a miss during the performance. The same task will be re-shown for a seconds attempt. The number of rhythm patterns will vary based on the tasks completed correctly or incorrectly. (User obtain the scores depending on the number of the instruments hit correctly)
   
   
   

Training Results

• Score
• Play Time
• Success Rate
• Wrist Flexion/Extension(Eliminated Gravity) ROM

<3> Take Baby Bird

Take Baby Bird is the training game that aims not to hurt baby bird jumping down escaping from cat, take with mother bird’s arms. This game can improve your wrist flexion and extension movement

Training Methods

1. With Wrist Flexion / Extension(Eliminated Gravity) movement, you can move mother bird to left to right.
   

• PROM Comparison
  -Level 1: Moves every time the patient moves 1/6th of the amount
  -Level 2: Moves every time the patient moves 1/8th of the amount
  -Level 3: Moves every time the patient moves 1/10th of the amount

2. The location of mother bird will be moved depending on the angle.
   

3. Safely take baby bird by moving mother bird.
   

Training Results

• Score
• Play Time
• Wrist Flexion/Extension(Eliminated Gravity) ROM
  
  

Don’t you think you can do it with fun? But these games are not just about fun. Each game is scientifically designed to invigorate muscles and stimulate visual and auditory senses to reinforce neuroplasticity and accelerate recovery.

AI built into the [RAPAEL solutions]http://www.neofect.com/en/solution/) suggests rehabilitation games based on patients’ preferences and progress, delivering customized, optimal therapy for patients.

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Research shows that utilizing virtual reality gaming as a therapy tool has the potential to increase a patient's engagement and motivation in therapy allowing them to relearn through repetition, reinforcement and immediate feedback. (1)

The RAPAEL Smart Board puts the affected upper extremity into a gravity eliminated position and focuses on repetitive functional movements in order to increase overall range of motion, coordination and timing through reach retraining activities in a virtual reality world.

The RAPAEL Smart Board essentially turns the patient's upper extremity into an avatar allowing the patient to participate in therapeutic gaming activities while providing biofeedback. The Smart Board provides therapeutic gaming activities that simulates activities of daily living as well as some fun innovative activities. The Smart Board is a data driven program that though artificial intelligence tracts patients’ progress providing a just-right challenge. Clinicians and patients do have the ability to manually change the parameters if desired.

RAPAEL Smart Board is intended for patients with upper extremity dysfunction that are limiting range of motion and function on a daily basis.. Primary diagnosis include: Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Parkinson's Disease, Guillain- Barre Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, Brain Tumor, Cerebral Palsy, Burns, Frozen Shoulder, Arthritis and other orthopedic or neurological disorders.

RAPAEL Smart Board acts as a digital goniometer and measures the patient's range of motion during all activities allowing the clinician to gather objective results for total available reach as well as for timing and coordination. Having these objective measures allows for the clinician to obtain more quantified data to justify improvements allowing for continued services. Quantified data can also be used in order to motivate the patient to keep working towards their goal.

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  (1) Hatem SM, Saussez G, della Faille M, et al. Rehabilitation of Motor Function after Stroke: A Multiple Systematic Review Focused on Techniques to Stimulate Upper Extremity Recovery. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2016;10:442. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00442.

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CES Innovation Award Honoree second year in a row, a healthcare technology startup NEOFECT, has developed an addition to their array of smart rehabilitation products.

RAPAEL Smart Pegboard is a breakthrough device designed to improve the effectiveness of rehabilitation training for grasp and dexterity with a cognitive and visual component to engage patients. By involving patients in a motivating rehabilitation experience, providing real-time visual and auditory feedback, the product can capitalize on neuroplasticity.

RAPAEL Smart Pegboard includes one Base Board, three Combining Boards, and five Peg boxes. The Base Board is equipped with 63 high intensity LED lights, digital display, and built-in speakers. By replacing combining boards, therapists can design a personalized training plan and customize rehabilitation program based on specific needs of each patient.

RAPAEL Smart Pegboard employs gamification to keep patients motivated by creating a positive, interactive environment. By playing the training games, patients can make progress in their rehabilitation program. They also receive a visual and auditory feedback which helps them see the results of the therapy in a real time.

The games employ two forms of exercises - functional and cognitive. Examples of the games include: making shapes, remembering the order, or catching a snake. The results are scored for an overall time, an average response time, the number of pegs in right places, and success rate.

Ho Young Ban, a founder and CEO of NEOFECT, said: “We’re excited and proud to add the RAPAEL Smart Pegboard to our list of technological innovations. We believe that by using game-based training, healthcare providers can help their patients stay positive about their recovery which will lead to better rehabilitation experience and more people getting back their health.”

The RAPAEL Smart Pegboard, as well as other technological innovations, empowers patients to become active participants in their recovery program by setting specific, achievable goals while providing valuable information to their caregivers. The data helps physicians to amplify the efficiency of rehabilitation processes. Now you can buy or rent to own this innovative digital rehabilitation devices.

You can find additional information and get the device here: https://shop.NEOFECT.com/product/pegboard/.
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Welcome to RAPAEL Home Blog! Do you by chance know what RAPAEL is and what it means? This post will introduce you NEOFECT and RAPAEL.

The meaning of the name NEOFECT

NEOFECT is a company that develops solutions for smart digital rehabilitation exercise. In order to overcome the loss of interest in the existing repetitive rehabilitation process and to supplement the time and place restrictions of it, NEOFECT has been developing the smart digital rehabilitation equipment. We combine game, a clear instigator of amusement, to rehabilitation making the training more entertaining and long-lasting.

The company’s name NEOFECT is a combination of NEO, which is a Greek prefix meaning "novelty", with the word “Effect.” Thereby the name contains the connotation of "creating a new effect". It includes the aspiration to be an innovative company that will create a new paradigm of rehabilitation. Also, the name connects with its brand name RAPAEL.

The meaning of the name RAPAEL

The name RAPAEL derived from the "name of a kindhearted Angel who heals the pain inside a human." The name possesses the intention to cure stroke patients, children with developmental disabilities, and others who need rehabilitation training through appropriate exercise. While looking for an appropriate word from various languages, the word "Raphael" in Hebrew has come up.

Currently, NEOFECT has developed a software called RAPAEL Solution and linked it with the rehabilitation equipment hardware, furthermore providing rental service or actual sales of this product. The recent RAPAEL lineups include RAPAEL Smart Glove, RAPAEL Smart Kids, RAPAEL Smart Board, RAPAEL Smart Pegboard and RAPAEL Comcog.

Amongst them, the RAPAEL Smart Glove, which won the CES 2017 Innovation Awards, has been developed to enable patients with central nervous system disorders such as stroke, to rehabilitate their fingers, wrists and lower arms through various rehabilitation games.

More than 40 rehabilitation games will make patients feel as if they are playing a video game while having both the visual and auditory senses stimulated simultaneously. This will help patients improve their brain plasticity and aid in the relearning of exercising regions in brain. In addition, it is designed so that the analyzed data measured during training will, through the Artificial Intelligence, end up providing a variety of training game tasks tailored to the patient's condition, motivating him or her. While wearing the RAPAEL Smart Glove, patients with stroke or nervous system injuries will be trained to stretch, grasp and bend their hands as they play the game on the screen. They will be able to learn the movements needed in daily life by repeating games of grabbing a cup, painting, squeezing an orange or throwing a ball.

To prevent stroke patients from experiencing discomfort in their everyday lives, RAPAEL Smart Glove, through the attached sensors, offer integrated data by acutely measuring and analyzing the patient’s movement in games.
This will allow the patient to enjoy the repetitive training. Just like the implication of the company name and the brand name, NEOFECT will do its best to provide patients with better rehabilitation equipment and rehabilitation conditions.. For more information about NEOFECT and RAPAEL, please visit the website!

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A recent study completed by the University of California, Irvine, reported that individuals who had experienced a stroke, saw as much improvement in their mobility through telerehabilitation sessions, those provided with coaching through video calls over the computer and other specialized tracking tools, as those traveling to complete rehab in-person.

The study, presented at the 2018 European Stroke Conference in Sweden, was a multicenter trial involving over 120 stroke survivors as participants. Study participants were an average of 61 years old and 4.5 months post stroke. They completed 6 weeks of intensive hand and arm therapy, half in a clinic setting and half in a supervised program at home via a telerehab video system.

Both groups improved in their motor function scores, the clinic group saw an 8.4 point increase and the telerehab group saw a 7.9 point increase on the Fugl Meyer, a standardized assessment of hand and arm function. This wasn’t a statistically significant difference but an increase in function, nonetheless, and very close to the same increase the clinic group experienced.

With an aging population, it is thought that the need for this type of service will only increase over time. Future studies plan to look at longer term treatment and including gait and language. The big bonus in using telerehab as an option for stroke recovery is, of course, encouraging patients to stay engaged in their rehabilitation.

“Getting patients to remain engaged and comply with therapy is a key measure of success of any rehabilitation program,” Cramer said. “Greater gains are associated with therapy that is challenging, motivating, accompanied by appropriate feedback, interesting and relevant. Telerehab achieves this because therapy is provided through games, provides user feedback, can be adjusted based on individual needs, is easy to use – and is fun.”

DID YOU KNOW? RAPAEL Smart Rehab Solutions such as the Smart Glove, Smart Kids and Smart Board, use the same sort of telerehab support for training and coaching our users. All new users have access to an occupational therapist on our team that can customize your rehabilitation to get you started on the right foot! Contact us to get started with your Rapael Smart Rehab + telerehab support today!

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RAPAEL Smart Rehabilitation Solutions provide rehabilitation and training through games for patients recovering from medical episodes like stroke. Now, do you want to know the real story of someone who’ve actually used RAPAEL solutions?

1. Carol S. from Richmond, Virginia

"I really believe in this product. I don't talk to people much but the games keep my mind working, It is great with the hand, but in a cognitive level, I have come a long way and can make full sentences now."

2. Jess Mcnair from San Francisco, CA

The smart glove has been an innovative, exciting and accessible way to continue therapy at home. There have been noticeable improvements in my right hand’s movement.

3. Melia W. from Issaquah, Washington

We spent over a year trying to find something to help with neuro pathing for arm therapy after a severe stroke. There was just nothing affordable out there. We came upon NEOFECT and it's been a lifesaver. With the innovative games and deep knowledge of how the brain reconnects and what is needed to keep therapy interesting, we feel like we've finally found a partner that will help get us to the next stage.

My husband has had little return to his left arm since his stroke. We've tried lots of things, but it's all very tedious and Kerry just wasn't interested. Using the neofect and actually being able to SEE the progress on their software as well as having Kerry completely engaged as he's playing games (not trying to put pegs on a board) has been amazing. He's had real increases in numbers and we look forward to many months of rehab using this innovative device.

We've worked with a lot of companies trying to find someway to help with my husband's neuro therapy for his left arm after a debilitating stroke. The therapies have been less than successful and most companies sell you a product and then want nothing to do with you. Neofect has developed a product that truly helps with rehabilitation but, more than that, they are a true partner in the process. They are constantly releasing new games, they check in on progress and are by our side helping us get to the next stage. We are so very grateful to have found this company and their amazing product.

I can not say enough about the RAPAEL from Neofect. This product is innovative in every definition of the word. The exoskeleton like glove detects even the most minute of movements and translates them into interesting and compelling games. The feeling of accomplishment when my husband "puts out the fire" or "squeezes an orange" can not be measured, well, actually, it can!! Not only does the glove sense movements, but the games keep track of how much movement there is and adjusts accordingly. It's just amazing to see the level of connection my husband has when playing the games and the sense of accomplishment when he "beats them". I truly think this technology and system will be life changing for stroke patients trying to recover function.

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Every year, more than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke.(1) Seventy Five percent of these stroke survivors will present with upper extremity impairments (2). People who have experienced upper extremity impairments will commonly present with difficulties in grasping and releasing objects. (3) Many people who show signs of upper extremity impairments after a stroke will continue to present with limitations for many months to years after their stroke. Therefore improving upper extremity function is a key element to rehabilitation after a stroke.

Many stroke survivors present with tightness in their affected hand and have a difficult time opening their hand and straightening their fingers. This is caused by something called spasticity. Spasticity is caused by damage to the portion of the brain that controls voluntary movements. This damage can make it difficult for the nervous system to communicate with the muscles in the hand. There are many different interventions available to treat upper extremity impairments including spasticity, one of these interventions is splinting.

Splinting is commonly used to reduce spasticity, prevent contractures and improve range of motion in order to increase function after a neurological injury such as stroke. The NEOFECT Extender is a functional orthosis that is used to minimize spasticity, maintain functional grasp as well as prevent stiffness. The Extender has many special features to increase functional status in ones daily life.

These features include:

• Antispasticity Strap: Minimizes spasticity and maintains the appropriate stretch in order to assist with functional movements.

• Silicon Material on the Fingers: Silicon materials on the fingers assists with grasping objects with less power and strength.

• Adjustable Finger Tension Straps: The finger straps help to maintain specific tension in various ranges to give support which allows clients to start utilizing this device early on.

• Dual Purpose Strap: This strap is designed so that the client can position their hand in multiple functional positions to assist with activities of daily living.

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If you are involved in rehabilitation after an injury or illness, you likely know that starting rehab early and performing rehabilitation exercises often is the key to improving your recovery. In an ideal world, you would have the support of an occupational or physical therapist for the duration of your recovery process.

However, due to physical and economic constraints, having access to long term rehabilitation may not be possible. What is the alternative? There are several pieces of technology that allow for motivating and engaging in-home rehab. e An in-home rehabilitation program includes the appropriate treatment and exercises necessary for continuous recovery. We recommend that you keep the following points in mind while discussing details for a home program with your therapist.

• Let your therapist know that you want a program that will not only help you maintain your capabilities, but also improve them.
• Establish the details of a home rehab program with your therapist as soon as possible.
• Ask for information and methods that are essential in improving your motor skills even after the official treatment is over regardless of where you are being treated.
• Discuss how to advance your home rehab program over time. It is important to adjust your goals as your abilities change, as well as to learn the necessary means and methods needed to achieve the goals.
• Repeat this discussion regularly. Meet with the therapist every few months at a minimum , more often if you’re progressing quickly, to assess your e situation and decide whether or not to further tailor your program .

RAPAEL Smart Rehab Tools are one way to achieve more effective in-home rehab. RAPAEL Smart Glove Home was used by Dr. Kara Flavin of Stanford Neuroscience Health Center and her team to research the feasibility of an in-home rehab program using the Smart Glove. The program was carried out independently by stroke patients at home and showed good compliance, improved functional outcomes, as well as good satisfaction with the program. These results were presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of American Academy of Neurology and were alsoo made public online via an abstract in the publication “Neurology”, one of the most respected journals in the field of neuroscience.

According to the Stanford Neuroscience Health Center, all the stroke patients who participated in the study involving home rehabilitation via Neofect’s RAPAEL Smart Glove reported satisfactory results.

The RAPAEL Smart Glove and RAPAEL Home software allows for a high intensity, high repetition program that users can complete in the comfort of their own home. The product is designed to be a customized rehab tool for each patient using artificial intelligence and and an algorithm that guides a person through appropriate training activities to increase the brain’s plasticity and improve motor function. If you have more questions about RAPAEL Smart Rehab tools, optimized for stroke rehabilitation, please visit our website.

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