Real-Time sEMG-Guided Multi-Zone Thermal Therapy

This project designs, develops and evaluates an integrated rehabilitation system for patients with post-stroke upper-limb spasticity.

The system uses surface electromyography and real-time signal processing to measure involuntary muscle activity continuously and separately for each muscle during rehabilitation, then directs localized thermal intervention to the muscles generating that activity through four independently controlled heating zones.

By replacing whole-limb heat application with muscle-level targeting driven by the patient’s own muscle activity, the project aims to make thermal therapy adaptive, patient-specific and quantifiable. It is run as a feasibility study with approximately ten participants.