The design and development for guided rehabilitation walking aid

• Main Authors: HUANG,CHI-CHENG, 黃基城
• Other Authors: LIN,JIUN-HUNG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48729482288946907077

碩士 === 崑山科技大學 === 電子工程研究所 === 104 === Population aging has been a global trend in recent years, and population aging is getting serious in Taiwan. Domestic aging index hitting record high as well as the change of eating habits and the increase in life stress resulted from enhancing national standard of living have further enhanced the morbidity of cerebrovascular diseases. Cerebrovascular accidents present high mortality and high recurrence rate and often leave serious sequela. Limb kinetic dysfunction is the most common sequel. The recovery of patients’ limb kinetic function therefore appears great relationship with the rehabilitation treatment. Patients with uncoordinated movement have to rely on walking aid for the walking rehabilitation in the beginning of rehabilitation treatment. Accordingly, walking aid is primary for patients with disabled movement and bad balance. Walking aid could offer larger stability to support patients so that stroke patients could walk with walking aid. Stroke patients are planned the rehabilitation target by sticking footprints on the floor for the rehabilitation in hospitals. Such a rehabilitation method could not have many patients at the same time. Footprints in the rehabilitation could merely restrict patients in the same space. Besides, a patient needs a physiatrist for company during the rehabilitation, but a physiatrist cannot take care of several patients. In this case, physiatrists cannot accompany patients all the time. Moreover, each patient presents different way and habit on using walking aid. It also needs discussion and further improvement. In consideration of space limitations, inadequate physiatrists, and patients’ using habits of walking aid, an effective solution is proposed in this study. A system to improve physiatrists’ work efficiency, have patient rehabilitation not being restricted by space, and judge patients’ using habits is proposed in this study to solve above problems.