BrainRecovery

A web application that helps post-stroke brain rehabilitation.

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Inspiration

Millions of people worldwide suffer from strokes. Those people who have experienced one need a deep and lengthy process of rehabilitation. One of the difficulties that the person might experience is permanent brain damage, including memory and visual problems, and obstacles in decision-making. The brain often compensates for the damage caused by stroke. Some of the brain cells that do not die may resume functioning. Sometimes, one region of the brain takes over for a part damaged by the stroke. Stroke survivors have experienced remarkable and unanticipated recoveries that cannot be explained. The recovery must be accomplished in a way that preserves dignity while motivating the survivor to relearn basic skills the stroke may have taken away. Our website aims to provide patients who have recently undergone a stroke with a tool that will aid in brain recovery. The website implements four types of exercises that help the patient regain cognitive abilities, logical thinking, and speech understanding. Studies show that those interactive brain exercises show effectiveness preclinically as an intervention for stroke. Stroke survivors often find that once-simple tasks around the house become extremely difficult or impossible. The tasks and techniques on our website are available to help people retain their brain function safely and clearly.

What it does

Our Project Brain Recovery is a web app made to help people who recently had a stroke or any other illness and got temporary damage to their brains. In the USA only 795,000 people have a stroke every year, from them about 610000 are first or new strokes. Our web app has a few exercises which help to recover brain functionality. Doing small exercises like arithmetics or matching the pictures helps patients to start differentiating between objects and helps them recover and get back to their daily life easier. One of the developers had a similar experience as his father also had a stroke and to help him recover doctors made him do similar exercises. Moreover, from their experience we can tell that this is very effective, one difference is that our web app lets people do these exercises everywhere if they have the internet connection and also tells them if they picked the correct answer. Finally, they can choose how many tasks of one exercise type they want to do.

How we built it

We used various technologies in the production of our project such as the Vaadin framework, Spring framework, Heroku Cloud. The main programming language for that was Java and we also used a bit of CSS to style our Vaadin UI components.

What's next for BrainRecovery

We are planning to create a full-fledged tool for medical institutions by connecting our app to the database and enabling users to add more custom tasks. As for the patients, the website will have the statistics and progress tab, which will help both them and doctors to monitor how their rehabilitation goes.

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