2A2-F12 触覚バイオフィードバックに基づく歩行リハビリ支援システム : 第4報 : 支持有り歩行リハビリプログラムの開発(リハビリテーションロボティクス・メカトロニクス)

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We have constructed a locomotion rehabilitation system based on tactile-biofeedback for stroke patients that provides foot contact pressures on the paralytic side onto the body of their non-paralytic one. We newly propose a design method of walking rehabilitation program that enables hemiplegia to gradually learn how to change foot pressure patterns using the biofeedback system while walking. The proposed program is planned diversely based on combinations of three principles in walking: (a) COP moving (Center Of foot contact Pressures) from heel to toe; (b) COG switched over between two legs (Center Of Gravity); (c) Switching between earthing and contact-free. A program menu for the sitting phase is applied at the first stage of the walking training, following training programs that make patients take a standing posture with legs side by side and with a leg behind another. Clinical tests for four patients indicate the locomotion rehabilitation system and proposed program allow hemiplegia to improve the adjusting capability of foot pressure transitions on the usage of them.
2007-05-11