Low power glove for hand functioning analysis in children with cerebral palsy

Abstract

In this paper, a low-cost glove has been manufactured to monitor and analyse the hand motion for the children who suffer from the cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy (CP) is a combination of continual disorders affect the movement’s evolution due to a non-gradual disturbance in developing fetal or infant cerebrum. An Arduino Nano microcontroller with flex and force sensors are attached to soft cloth glove to form the analysis glove. The data of this study is collected from children who have cerebral palsy, non-cerebral palsy, and children who are treating by physiotherapy and then compared with each other. The results show that the analysis glove helps the physiotherapist to assess the hand functioning problem such as difficulty in hand grip and inability to fully bend the hand figures in general and thumb figure in particular. These remarks can help physiotherapists to define the required program to improve these functions and indications.