Sensory-Motor Active Rehabilitation Training Arm (SMART Arm) is a device developed by researchers from The University of Queensland and James Cook University.
The device enables stroke survivors with upper limb weakness to drive their own rehabilitation through feedback on performance via an interactive computer program and incremental increases in load and reaching range.
“SMART Arm is one of the few interventions shown to result in positive changes in neural plasticity in people with severe paralysis after chronic stroke, so we’re very keen to see the device become available to as many as possible, as soon as possible,” Brauer said.
“There is evidence that the brain has greater capacity for plasticity early following stroke, so we are undertaking a trial of SMART Arm training in patients who have just had a stroke, to take advantage of an optimal window for neural recovery."
SMART Arm Pty Ltd has been formed as a partnership between Townsville Mackay Medicare Local (TMML), UQ, and JCU to further develop, manufacture and market the technology following an investment from TMML.
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