With longer life expectancy, baby boomers now enter the last stage of their lives. They live longer and the percent of having stroke also increase. The high number of stroke patients in the recent also support that. Stroke patients have L-shaped hand which can interfere their communications and create tension in their arms, which can hurt badly after a period of time.
In this project, we have a 3D-printed, rough, first-generation hand device which can straighten stroke patients’ arms. This help them communicate better and give them physical comfort.

This device is still not perfect, and is needed to improve to become a real product. The product material is rough, the mechanism works, but not perfectly. Some components are likely to be broken.
Objectives:
– Adjusting some design to make sure the mechanism work perfectly
– Manufacture with better smooth, commercial materials
– Adding some features that can give patients comfort.

This device is 3-D printed 99%, cheap, and it is mobile which can carry anywhere. The patients even can make one any time they want. The design is a cover around the upper area of patients’ hands, which give them lots of space.

We can make the device anywhere in the world with a 3-D printer, especially in poor, distant countries. In addition, it is very cheap to make one. The current 3-D material is not fully eco-friendly. However, 3-D printing now is just at the first stage, and the future materials will be eco-friendly since all manufacturers are trying to push the industry in that way.