A Robotic System for Rehabilitation of Distal Radius Fracture using

Figure 1: User testing the proposed system. From left to right: a user with the device for rehabilitation playing the pong game against the therapist playing with the keyboard; a close-up on a user performing the movements; a game screen in which the user performs the movements. This work integrates robotics and electronic games with the objective of producing more motivating and attractive therapeutic activities in distal radius fracture rehabilitation (wrist region). The proposed robotic system allows the reliable measurement of all wrist angular motion amplitudes. In order to achieve this goal, a framework is proposed that allows the full integration between the designed game and the developed hardware. The framework stores data from the game and from the robot movements for further analysis. The prototype was tested in healthy subjects, and a questionnaire was used to produce qualitative impressions concerning the system