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🦾 A pioneering Norwegian start-up, Vilje Bionics, has just developed the world’s first exoskeleton designed to support the entire arm, from the shoulder all the way down to the hand and following successful trials with over 40 patients, the company is preparing for a commercial launch in Norway during the first half of 2026 🗓🚀! ✨
Unlike existing arm exoskeletons that often stop at the elbow or focus solely on the hand, this revolutionary device, known as VilPower, provides integrated assistance across every joint, allowing survivors to perform complex, natural movements for the first time since their stroke 🚶♂️.
What makes VilPower truly different is its thought-activated design 🧠⚡️. While traditional tech relies on sensors placed directly on the skin, this prototype uses novel non-contact sensor technology coupled with machine learning to detect even the tiniest 'residual' muscle signals 📶. It essentially listens to the user's intent; when you think about moving, the exoskeleton amplifies that small impulse into a full, fluid motion! This helps rewire the brain through neuroplasticity by providing immediate physical feedback for every mental command.
While a specific UK release date hasn't been set, the rapid progress toward medical device compliance suggests it could follow shortly after the initial launch. Although an exact consumer price is still being finalised, early estimates for high-end bionic assistance of this caliber often range between £5,000 and £15,000, with the goal of making it an accessible alternative to long-term intensive clinical therapy 💸🏥.
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Only thing is they are so expensive to purchase , that very few get to experience relief and the movement they long for
Useful. Are they working on one for legs as well?
so not affordable to Anyone
Happy New Year from all at ARNI
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Happy New Year to you all 💕
Happy new year xx
Happy New Year to you all xx
Happy New Year to all the ARNI staff and stroke survivors.
Happy New year to you all xx
THE LATEST STROKE RECOVERY NEWS INCL. Mobile Stroke Units & the 86% Reduction in A&E Transfers -
Never gave up. Keep exploring options and refused to accept any limits to recovery.
Determination goes a long way during recovery!
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It's New Year's Eve already - and to cap off 2025, a major new study has just been published, from the University of Dundee, which has revealed that Mobile Stroke Units (MSUs) could slash emergency department transfers by a staggering 86%!
These specialised ambulances are like 'hospitals on wheels', equipped with built-in CT scanners and labs that allow medical teams to diagnose and treat patients right at their doorstep. Have you actually seen one of them yet? Let us know please in the comments below if you have...
The research, which followed a successful pilot in the East of England, showed that nearly half of patients (46.4%) could be safely managed at home after a pre-hospital diagnosis, while another 39.6% were sent directly to specialist wards, completely bypassing busy A&E departments.
Beyond saving precious brain cells by starting treatment faster, experts estimate that just one of these units could save the NHS around £1 million annually and prevent 600 unnecessary hospital admissions every year.
Professor Iris Grunwald, who led the research, is now calling for these transformative units to be funded across Scotland to ease pressure on overwhelmed hospitals and provide life-changing care to rural and urban communities alike 🧠⚡️🏥.
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Focusing on rehabilitation is essential for stroke recovery. Keeping a recovery journal while consistently working on your exercises can help survivors see results and stay motivated to continue making progress.
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For anyone interested in knowing more about the fascinating history of stroke since the Middle Ages
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link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42466-020-00082-0
Historic review: select chapters of a history of stroke - Neurological Research and Practice
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Background There is no shortage of books, chapters and papers on the history of stroke focusing predominantly on the last 150 years and enumerating endless “milestones”. Instead of adding anothe...
This post, about V-Health, is a follow up to our ARNI Stroke Rehab UK post of a few days ago about XR tech✨ This cutting-edge platform, particularly the v-health XR system combines VR with patented FES wearable bands 🦾🎮 called 'eir bands' (!) that wrap around the arm to provide real-time muscle stimulation while you perform tasks in a digital world like reaching for objects or playing specialised games designed to rewire the brain through neuroplasticity 🧠⚡️.
Stroke survivors are finding it far more engaging than standard exercises because it turns repetitive movements into a motivating, gamified experience that you can even do from the comfort of your own living room. Currently, this tech is available at specialist private clinics like VIM Health in West Sussex, which offers intensive rehabilitation packages using state-of-the-art robotics and VR 🏥📍.
It's also being piloted and tested in collaboration with NHS trusts such as Hillingdon Hospitals and academic partners like Brunel University to make it a standard part of UK stroke care pathways 🤝🎓. For those looking for remote options, platforms like v-health Mobile allow clinicians to monitor your progress and adjust stimulation levels wirelessly via a tablet or phone, ensuring you stay on track with the crucial golden window of recovery without constantly traveling to a hospital 📱📉🦾✨
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v-health’s feasibility studies were conducted with stroke survivors and individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI), in four clinics: the University of Ghent Hospital in Belgium, Hobbs Rehabilitation, Neurokinex and Relive in the UK. Well, I'm sure Hobbs will be wanting to incorporate it in their range of stuff - but I do know people pay an absolute fortune to go there for a week or so (Ive heard of someone paying over £60,000 to do 3 weeks!)
So not privately available yet and even if so probably out with a lot of our price ranges 🤔
A core part of the ARNI approach is to teach stroke survivors how to cope with falls; the most dangerous part of the balance problems caused by stroke.
Survivors (many of whom have the functional use of just one arm) learn how to get down to, and up from, the floor without any kind of external support to pull themselves up with.
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Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) is a stroke rehabilitation technique that involves restricting your unaffected side while forcing the use of your affected side. It can be quite frustrating if the affected side has severely limited mobility and then the you’re asked to complete exercises with that side for multiple hours per day (as typical CIMT protocol requires).
Although it can be frustrating and aggressive, CIMT has an established track record of helping improve movement after stroke.
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I think I need to do this and step up the hand and finger movements.
