New Software for Assessing Hand Motor Skills Developed in Samara

Development will speed up disease diagnosis

Software has been created at the Samara State Medical University (SamSMU) of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. It will allow assessing the degree of impairment of hand motor skills. This was reported by the press service of the university.

The development will help patients with neurodegenerative diseases, those who have suffered traumatic brain injuries and strokes.

At the moment, we have created a full-fledged IT product that assesses the kinematics of the user's hand movements when interacting with virtual objects and assesses the severity of motor impairments, comparable in accuracy to testing by a rehabilitation doctor. After that, the rehabilitation doctor receives a report on the functional impairments observed in the patient, in the form of a standardized scale, for example, the ARAT test.
Александр Захаров, директор НИИ нейронаук СамГМУ

According to the specialist, doctors currently conduct examinations manually. This takes a lot of time and requires special equipment for diagnosis. The new software will help automate the assessment of hand motor skill impairments and prescribe effective treatment.

The development can be used in integration with simulators for rehabilitation of patients with motor function impairments created at SamSMU (ReviVR, ReviMotion and ReviHand) or as a separate product.

Earlier www1.ru reported that Russian engineers created a glove for restoring fine motor skills of the hands.

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