以色列Curatronic公司开发出新型脑中风康复设备

一种新型设备能够帮助脑卒中患者大脑某部分重新学习去激活或者重新学习自发性地控制肉。这种设备设计用于患者在自己家中进行治疗，已经获得了美国食品药品管理局的许可。

Biomove3000系统能够检测脑中风后持续瘫痪肌肉极其微小的肌电图（EMG）信号，并且使用这些微小信号启动传导至肌肉的电刺激脉冲，患者从而产生真实的肌肉运动。如果由于脑中风的损害不能产生规则电脉冲，或者电刺激不能传导至肌肉，就不会发生正常的肌肉收缩。残余肌电图信号通常非常微小不足以控制肌肉。这就会导致不可逆转的损害以及肌肉功能的丧失，导致瘫痪产生爪型手以及下垂足。

在几乎所有脑中风病例中，仍然有非常少量的电刺激能够传导至肌肉。放置在瘫痪肌肉上的贴附电极能够检测到少量残余肌电图信号。Biomove设备然后将这些微小信号放大，当达到内部预置触发水平的时候，嵌入式刺激器将电刺激回传给相同的肌肉。然后这些肌肉就可以象患者自己大脑信号“指导”一样的作出反应。

患者使用这种方法来康复瘫痪的手或者足部肌肉。这种Biomove3000设备是由Curatronic公司(Hashmonaim, Israel)研制开发的。这种形式的脑中风康复方法叫做肌电图触发的神经肌肉电刺激（electromyographic-triggered neuromuscular electrical stimulation）。
 
Device for Stroke Rehabilitation
 
A new device helps stroke patients re-learn which part of the brain to activate and re-develop spontaneous muscle control. The device, designed for home therapy, has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The Biomove 3000 system detects extremely small electromyographic (EMG) signals that persist in paralyzed muscles after a stroke and uses these tiny signals to initiate an electrical stimulation impulse to the muscles, resulting in actual muscle movement by the patient. If regular electrical impulses are not generated or can no longer reach muscles due to stroke damage, normal muscle contraction becomes impossible. The “leftover” EMG signals are often very small and unable to control muscles. This can lead to irreversible damage and loss of muscle function, resulting in paralysis causing a claw hand or dropped foot.

In almost all cases of stroke, there is still a very small amount of electricity that reaches the muscles. These small leftover EMG signals are picked up by stick-on electrodes placed over the paralyzed muscles.

The Biomove device then amplifies these small signals and when an internal preset trigger level is reached, the built-in stimulator returns an electrical stimulation impulse to the same muscles. The muscles now respond as originally “instructed” by the patient’s own brain signal.

Patients use this method to rehabilitate the muscles of an otherwise paralyzed hand or foot. The Biomove 3000 device was developed by Curatronic Ltd. (Hashmonaim, Israel). This form of stroke rehabilitation is known as EMG-triggered NMES (neuromuscular electrical stimulation).