The Development of a System for Hand Rehabilitation

• Main Authors: HUANG,YING-QIN, 黃應欽
• Other Authors: SHEU,MENG-LIEH
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75606247831530547373

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 電機工程學系 === 105 === Taiwan has been facing the population aging problem. With the number of cases of diseases and accidents increase, patients with hand dysfunction and immobility increase. This makes the need for rehabilitation treatment increasing. With the progressive development of science and technology, the traditional rehabilitation treatment relying on human manpower has been gradually replaced. New technologies have been employed into the traditional medical aids, and this makes medical aids have diversified development. This significantly improves the effectiveness and complementarity of rehabilitation. Routinely, hand rehabilitation mainly uses medical aids to assist patients with the training of their fingers’ ability on stretching, bending and grasping. Although these medical aids can help patients to restore their hand function, it lacks of data capture of fingers’ range of movement, as well as providing training feedback. Therefore, rehabilitation process cannot be recorded. Moreover, patients need to spend time on transporting to hospital for rehabilitation training. This is very inconvenient and may affect the effectiveness of rehabilitation. This study aims to develop an interactive hand function rehabilitation system with the integration of the 3D printing technique, mechanical and electrical design, as well as database management. We have developed a glove with sensors inside it, for the measurement of the fingers’ range of movement. The data of fingers’ movement were recorded and stored at the database. Physicians can use such information in the future treatment. The 3D printed mechanical hand with various training modes can be used for patients’ hand rehabilitation training. Through interactive rehabilitation, rehabilitation becomes funnier.