The fiscal year of 2012 will be one of greater assistance to Texans that have had a brain or spinal cord injury according to an announcement made in February 2012. An $8.6 million grant was given to the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services of the Texas Department of Health and Human Services.The additional funding will be able to serve more Texans than previously estimated especially those that need intensive therapies to help them live independently in their communities.
It is hoped that the department will utilize some of these additional funds to purchase state of the art rehabilitative equipment such as the TUTOR system. These recently developed devices are already in use in leading U.S. and European hospitals and clinics. The TUTOR system is comprised of the HANDTUTOR, ARMTUTOR, LEGTUTOR and 3DTUTOR. The system is used for physical rehabilitation for those who have suffered brain or spinal cord injury, stroke, CP, MS, upper or lower extremity limb surgeries and other disabling illnesses.
The TUTORs consist of gloves or braces that are placed strategically on the patient’s body and then connected to dedicated software where the patient can use his own power to accomplish challenging tasks. The TUTOR’s software has a series of games with which the patient will be able to accomplish a specific task causing intensive exercises to be mastered. The games allow physical and occupational therapists (PT) (OT) to customize the right exercise parameters to the patient’s movement ability and report on the patient’s exercise progress.
The system is available at home for patients who no longer need hospitatlization or who can’t get to a clinic. This is accomplished through the use of telerehabilitation. The TUTORs are available for children as well as adults and are FDA and CE approved.
See WWW.HANDTUTOR.COM for more information.
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