Stroke Rehabilitation Video: Oscar's Story

Watch as Oscar starts stroke rehabilitation at Sharp Rehab.

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Transcript

(Electrical stimulation on screen)

Male: One of the interesting areas of new technology, really for disability, is electrical stimulation and we’ve seen it used for managing pain and we’ve seen it used to activate paralyzed muscles. We’re not able to use electrical stimulation on upper extremities in a coordinated fashion to elicit useful hand movement. And an example of this type of device would be the NESS 200, the Bioness device that is an elegantly designed device, which fits over the hand and wrist and can stimulate the key muscles in the forearm to provide a functional grasp. 

(May 2005 on screen)

Male: Prior to treatment with the NESS H-200 device, Oscar showed a lot of excess tone in the right arm. This was notable when he was walking in the manner which he would hold his arm in a flexed position. Oscar was unable to actively extend his right wrist or open his fingers, which made his hand essentially nonfunctional for him. Following the extended treatment with the NESS H-200 device Oscar is now able to, not only extend his wrist and open his fingers, but now grasp objects and use his hand in a functional way.  

Oscar: Before I couldn’t say … I couldn’t come up to my children and do this … and do the options with my right hand that I couldn’t do before, like say, maybe, hug him, or squeeze him or maybe pull him up with my hand and then tie … tie him up against … against my body, but with this … with this sensation, you know what I mean. Oh, a lot better, believe me, a lot, lot better. That’s the way I see it now. 

I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.