Background: The scientific community widely explores rehabilitation techniques for individuals with motor disabilities resulting from a stroke since this condition is observed in millions of individuals worldwide.
Results: This work presents the usability assessment of Neurostim, a neuromuscular electrical stimulation system triggered by a myoelectrical surface signal, with patients with hemiplegia caused by stroke. The device has a Bluetooth connection with a smartphone application so that configuration parameters can be sent. Usage statistics can be captured and monitored remotely by healthcare professionals, which is the innovation of the presented device following the strong tendency to expand the clinical environment to the patient’s home. The internet can provide healthcare professionals information to perform a detailed follow-up and interact with their patients remotely. Two control platforms were developed for different user profiles: neuroprosthesis users (Smartphone Application) and health professionals (Web Interface).
Conclusions: Neurostim showed to be a robust system application, despite the need for some improvements. It met all the proposal’s expectations, where users were successfully able to operate it, either from a patient or health professional perspective.