Guided Self-Rehabilitation Lab
SRT | Self-Rehabilitation
Technology
Guided self-rehabilitation lab
SRT | Self-Rehabilitation Technology
Break the cycle of physical inactivity
Ageing population is a challenge for healthcare systems. Collectively, we need to find solutions to develop intensive and diversified care pathways.
- The World Stroke Organisation recommends 3 hours of rehabilitation per day after a stroke.
- According to Barrett et al. (2018), prolonged inactivity periods reach 5.3 hours on weekdays and 6.8 hours during weekends.
These periods maintain deconditioning effects that affect patients’ recovery. Studies show that increasing activity time for patient is an essential factor in the functional recovery and autonomy maintenance.
Daily life of a rehab patient
During weekdays
Rest: 22%
Physical therapy: 7%
During weekends
Sleep: 41%
Rest: 21%
Source : Barret et al . (2018)
Our vision
The Guided Self-rehabilitation Lab
Based on the previous observation, it is therefore essential to involve patients in their rehabilitation. Therapists and relatives should also motivate them to increase the amount of daily activity.
Integrating a guided self-rehabilitation lab into the care pathway helps to reduce inactivity time and makes the patient actor in his or her own rehabilitation.
It consolidates and improves motor recovery, in addition to conventional therapy. Thanks to this innovative approach,risk of physical condition loss and autonomy loss are limited.
The therapists remain essential and guide the patient towards exercises adapted to their recovery stage.
SRT | Self-Rehabilitation Technology
SRT Technology stimulates the patient in an intuitive and playful way with a sphere manipulated in a single or two-handed mode.
These devices can be used outside conventional rehabilitation sessions: in a self rehab lab or in supervised group therapy sessions.
Ultra-intuitive, SRT devices are equally accessible to children and elderly patients, in both sitting and standing positions. The patient’s actions are displayed in real time on the screen.
Patients can carry out activities with one or both hands, alone, with other patients or their relatives.
Several cognitive and motor activities are already available to keep patients motivated and involved in their rehabilitation.
Encouraging the patient to interact with the spheres and practice playful exercises increases the activity dose, consolidates the benefits of supervised rehabilitation sessions and reduces the harmful effects of inactivity.
SRT5
- Work on global movement, focusing on elbow and shoulders
- Possible to constraint the use of the pathological hand
SRT2
- Work on bimanual coordination
- Requires less arm elevation
- Intensive training on wrists movements
SRT6
- Accessible for patients with limited proximal movements (shoulders)
- Intensive training on hand and wrist
- Work on attention and multi-sensations (screen + spheres)
Complementary technologies
All SRT devices offer common exercises in order to adapt work to patients’ motor recovery, or in order to work on the same activity but in a different way.
Cognitive-motor activities are adapted to each device. Exclusive activities are also developed in order to diversify training possibilities.
By practising in the guided self-rehabilitation lab, patients develop :
- balance in standing position
- double-task, especially on SRT2 and SRT6, with screen and random spheres management
Indications
- Neurology
- Orthopaedics
- Geriatrics
- Paediatrics
Large diversity of motor & cognitive exercises
Fine movements, attention, coordination
memory
visual exploration
executive functions
Visual representation, mental rotation
Coordination, attention, reactivity
Deduction, memory
Vicious circle of inactivity
Virtuous circle for recovery
Why set up a guided
self-rehabilitation lab?
1. Preventing the harmful effects of prolonged inactivity.
2. A rich environment based on cognitive and playful activities to stimulate
the patient and increase physical activity.
3. High level of clinical evidence on self-rehabilitation approach.
4. Ultra-intuitive and easy for all patients.
5. Intensive rehabilitation to encourage movement repetition.
6. Bimanual or unimanual motor training to constrain the use of the impaired limb.
7. Safe, seated or standing position.
8. Real-time adjustment of difficulty level according to patient recovery.
9. Performance monitoring
(activity time, number of movements, etc.).
10. Activities can be performed alone, with relatives or during group therapy session.