Effects of Hand MOtor Rehabilitation Using a sEMG-biofeedback

The patients receive daily 1 hour of conventional therapy and 1 hour of treatment of REMO®, that is a wearable composed by 8 bipolar electrodes able to detect the surface electromyography of the forearm muscles. REMO® allows the control of a computer interface using the surface electromyography to execute sEMG-biofeedback exercises for hand rehabilitation. The movements required for hand rehabilitation are the following: thumb abduction, pinch, finger flexion, finger extension, wrist flexion, wrist extension, forearm pronation, forearm supination, radial wrist deviation and ulnar wrist deviation. The treatment consists in 15 sessions, 1hour/day, for 5 days/week, for 3 weeks. The patients are clinically evaluated before and after the REMO® treatment.