Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability

In the United States a stroke occurs every 40 seconds, making it the leading cause of long term disability. While many Americans, nearly 780,000, suffer from a stroke every year, two-thirds of those patients require intensive rehabilitation and many never regain use of their arms. Now there is hope.

There’s a new arm brace device, called the Myomo e100 NeuroRobotic System™, which is helping stroke patients who have lost movement in their body due to partial paralysis. The device is a high-tech arm brace that is currently only being offered at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell metro-area hospital.

The Myomo helps patients through sensing electrical currents and impulses in the muscles that indicate the desire to move. When these impulses are felt, the Myomo then offers motorized assistance. The device is offering hope to stroke sufferers who thought they would never be able to regain use of their arms; the device is proving effective years after the stroke, and is changing the thought that stroke survivors could only benefit from rehabilitation a few months after the stroke.






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