TY - JOUR
T1 - Device Design of Ankle Joint Stretching System Controlled by the Healthy Side Ankle Joint Movement for Self-Rehabilitation
AU - Toda, Hideki
AU - Kawamoto, Hiroaki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Fuji Technology Press Ltd.
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - An ankle joint stretching device controlled by healthy-side ankle movements was developed for self-rehabilitation. Physical therapists treat their patients to prevent a subject ankle joint’s contracture and improve their walking function. However, sufficient rehabilitation therapy cannot be performed because of the labor demands of ankle joint rehabilitation. There has long been a demand for a self-rehabilitation system to reduce the amount of labor required, with the rehabilitation system operated by a physical therapist using a machine. Self-rehabilitation has not yet been realized. By stretching the affected ankle through the movement of the ankle on the healthy side, a self-rehabilitation device that can be used according to the will of the patient can be developed. An experiment confirmed that the device can realize affected-side ankle joint stretching by moving a foot plate connected to a linear actuator using the angle of the healthy-side ankle joint as a trigger. Ankle joint rotation angles of the affected and healthy sides were measured using two acceleration sensors. Compared with the previ-ously used button-push-type control, healthy-side control can realize a smooth and stable affected-side sole-pushing procedure. The proposed system, which does not require operation by a physical therapist during treatment, makes self-rehabilitation of the ankle joint possible.
AB - An ankle joint stretching device controlled by healthy-side ankle movements was developed for self-rehabilitation. Physical therapists treat their patients to prevent a subject ankle joint’s contracture and improve their walking function. However, sufficient rehabilitation therapy cannot be performed because of the labor demands of ankle joint rehabilitation. There has long been a demand for a self-rehabilitation system to reduce the amount of labor required, with the rehabilitation system operated by a physical therapist using a machine. Self-rehabilitation has not yet been realized. By stretching the affected ankle through the movement of the ankle on the healthy side, a self-rehabilitation device that can be used according to the will of the patient can be developed. An experiment confirmed that the device can realize affected-side ankle joint stretching by moving a foot plate connected to a linear actuator using the angle of the healthy-side ankle joint as a trigger. Ankle joint rotation angles of the affected and healthy sides were measured using two acceleration sensors. Compared with the previ-ously used button-push-type control, healthy-side control can realize a smooth and stable affected-side sole-pushing procedure. The proposed system, which does not require operation by a physical therapist during treatment, makes self-rehabilitation of the ankle joint possible.
KW - ankle joint angle fol-lowing
KW - ankle joint contracture removal
KW - ankle joint stretching
KW - healthy side rehabilitation
KW - self-rehabilitation device
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U2 - 10.20965/jrm.2023.p0556
DO - 10.20965/jrm.2023.p0556
M3 - 学術論文
AN - SCOPUS:85163681211
SN - 0915-3942
VL - 35
SP - 556
EP - 564
JO - Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics
JF - Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics
IS - 3
ER -