recoveriX is a brain-computer interface technology that helps the brain rewire itself to relearn lost motor functions.
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If stroke, multiple sclerosis or traumatic brain injury affect the ability to move, it isn’t necessarily lost! For that reason, g.tec medical engineering developed recoveriX Neurotechnology, a unique rehabilitative approach based on brain-computer interface technology that helps the brain rewire itself.
While giving the task to imagine a hand or foot movement, recoveriX provides feedback in real-time through muscle stimulation and visual simulation. This process induces neuroplasticity within the brain to relearn hand, arm and foot movements.
recoveriX helps to decrease pain, spasticity and tremor which leads to further improvements of gross and fine motor skills, concentration, passive joint movements, sensitivity, bladder control, sexual function, balance, gait and numbness of the face, body or extremities. It’s particularly striking that clients feel less fatigue and experience a decrease of foot freezing or foot drop.
recoveriX supplements physical and occupational training and can be used in the acute, sub-acute, or chronic states – even 10, 20 or 30 years after the MS diagnosis or the stroke!
In a recent interview, Dr. Tim von Oertzen, a renowned neurologist, highlighted the benefits of recoveriX neurorehabilitation for stroke and MS clients. He emphasized recoveriX’s potential to train the upper and lower limbs of those with impairments, noting significant improvements in locomotion, gait, balance, and movement control experienced firsthand.
In our recoveriX study, we proved that recoveriX training is very effective even 10, 20 or 30 years after a stroke.
Dr. Christoph Guger CEO and founder of g.tec medical engineering GmbH
A neurological disorder might inhibit your ability to move, but maybe not your ability to imagine movement! Imagine a hand or a foot movement – the imagination triggers nearly the same activity in the brain as a real hand or foot movement. This is what exactly recoveriX uses for your training! With three different kinds of neurofeedback, recoveriX improves your chances for successful training.
Imagine a hand or a foot movement. recoveriX measures and analyses brain waves, which reflects the motor imagery and determines whether the motor imagery was correct.
Once motor imagery has been recognized, virtual reality and functional electrical stimulation will be activated.
Unlike conventional physiotherapy, the BCI guarantees that actual movements only occur when people imagine the corresponding
movement.
The simulation on the screen makes motor imagery visible. Clients sit in front of a screen, where they see hands and feet of an avatar. This gives clients the feeling of watching their own movements in front of a mirror.
If recoveriX recognizes motor imagery of the movement (such as a right hand movement), the avatar moves the right hand.
For this stimulation, two electrodes are placed (for example) on the dorsiflexors of the wrist or on the leg. If the system recognizes a correct motor imagery, the muscles get electrically stimulated, causing a real movement.
This should help you re-learn how to initiate movement, and thus make movement possible again.
The client is motivated because the experience repeatedly reminds the client of the desired goal: being able to move again.
Mirror neurons are activated when a person observes the same behavior in another person.
When recoveriX recognizes the mental imagination of movement in the clients EEG signals, such as the movement of the right hand, the virtual avatar on the screen simulates the corresponding movement in real time.
This visual feedback is similar to mirror neuron training.
recoveriX encourages the client to practice motor imagery of both sides of the body, e.g. the affected right foot or the left hand. This approach is designed to support the activation of both hemispheres of the brain.
Stimulating both hemispheres of the brain improves the coordination of movements and increases fine and gross motor skills on the impaired side.
By imagining the movement, the client controls the avatar and can trigger actual movement through electrostimulation. If performed correctly, the hand or foot is raised and the client can touch a small virtual ball.
The repeated activation of the movement promotes new neuronal connections in healthy areas of the brain, which ultimately control the muscle movements correctly.
During recoveriX training, the healthy limb is constrained to stimulate the impaired limb. Clients must repeatedly imagine the movements of both the healthy and the impaired sides.
This method promotes coordination between the two hemispheres and can help to reduce spasticity and normalize temperature regulation.
Regular motor imagery can aid in reactivating neural pathways, promoting neuroplasticity, and aiding in the recovery process after injuries like strokes, multiple sclerosis, or traumatic brain injuries.
Explore recoveriX at Home, a new app by g.tec medical engineering designed to help recoveriX clients to improve their motor function by engaging in motor imagery exercises at home.
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