Development of a gait training robot(AID-1) and its clinical application.

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Model AID-1 was designed to be a more effective and efficient gait training device intended to help the patient, return to the activities of daily life as early as possible. It is a robot for gait training that can be operated through the use of human hands and feet in simple situations where powerful muscle force is required. The patients are lifted by the machine with a compressed-air drive mechanism. Any possible shocks are prevented and compensated for smoothly by a shock absorber that detects sudden changes in load due to factors such as unsteady gait or falling down to the ground.<BR>Actual gait training using model AID-1 was carried out on 44 cases with dysfunction due to multiple causes such as multiple weight bearing in cases of RA, femoral neck fracture, bilateral osteoarthritis of hip joints, incomplete spinal cord lesion and so on. In all these cases the patients were easily able to stand up and walk from a sitting position in a wheelchair.
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