An old saying states that if you want to help a hungry person survive you should not give him a fish to eat but rather a fishing rod so he can fish for food himself. When an individual is recovering from a brain or spinal cord injury or suffers from Parkinson’s disease, stroke or other limb disabling illnesses the best method of recovery, if possible, is a natural one. Rather than be encumbered with bulky,expensive and complicated machinery that merely sends an electronic signal or causes the joint or limb to move through an external force it would be far more efficient and enabling to have the patient himself ”do the work”.
The HANDTUTOR, ARMTUTOR, LEGTUTOR and 3DTUTOR are just those kind of devices. They guide, but don’t cause, the patient to move his affected limb or joint. The patient must use his own effort to excel at one of the many challenging games that exist on dedicated software created exclusively for the TUTORs. These exercises are then recorded and customized to the patient’s level by physical and occupational therapists who monitor the patient’s progress. By implementing this system the patient will speed up his fine motor, sensory and cognitive impairments so that he has a successful recovery and can regain his activities of daily living (ADL‘s) and thereby his quality of life.
Currently in use in leading U.S. and European hospitals the TUTOR system can be used at home as well through the use of telerehabilitation. It is designed for children from the age of 4 and adults.
See WWW.HANDTUTOR.COM for more information.
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