Mirror movement training apparatus for rehabilitation of stroke victims

摘要

A device to assist the rehabilitation of motor skills of limbs (arms) impaired, for example, by the user having suffered from a stroke, using bilateral movements performed in synchrony, controls the movement of the limbs of a user in a mirror symmetrical manner whilst the limbs are held in position via support arms. The device includes a bar 4 (or bars) to move about a point of rotation 5 between the ends of each bar, a first support arm 2A coupled at or toward one end of the bar, and a second support arm 2B coupled at or toward a different end of the bar. The support arms are adapted to support and hold the limbs of the user. As the bar rotates the support arms move in substantially tandem synchronised manner with respect to each other.