TY - GEN
T1 - Development of an upper limb patient simulator for physical therapy exercise
AU - Takhashi, Yoshiyuki
AU - Komeda, Takashi
AU - Koyama, Hiroyuki
AU - Yamamoto, S. Ichiro
AU - Arimatsu, Takayuki
AU - Kawakami, Yukio
AU - Inoue, Kaoru
AU - Ito, Yuko
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Physical therapist plays an important role to help people to regain the social life from disease and physical handicap. However, they can obtain their skills only from their practical experiences. The physical therapist trainee can enrich is experience only from the clinical practical training and this opportunity is limited. Therefore, we have been developing the upper limb patient simulator, which reproduce the stiffness of elbow joint to allow trainees to increase the opportunities to obtain the practical exercise of the physical therapy. The system reproduces the diseases by generating stiffness of the elbow joint, when the trainee tries to flex the elbow joint of the patient. We developed a mechanical part and a control system to realize the patient conditions and the full system has been evaluated by veteran physical therapists.
AB - Physical therapist plays an important role to help people to regain the social life from disease and physical handicap. However, they can obtain their skills only from their practical experiences. The physical therapist trainee can enrich is experience only from the clinical practical training and this opportunity is limited. Therefore, we have been developing the upper limb patient simulator, which reproduce the stiffness of elbow joint to allow trainees to increase the opportunities to obtain the practical exercise of the physical therapy. The system reproduces the diseases by generating stiffness of the elbow joint, when the trainee tries to flex the elbow joint of the patient. We developed a mechanical part and a control system to realize the patient conditions and the full system has been evaluated by veteran physical therapists.
KW - patient simulator
KW - physical therapy
KW - training
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U2 - 10.1109/ICORR.2011.5975510
DO - 10.1109/ICORR.2011.5975510
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 22275706
AN - SCOPUS:80055056873
SN - 9781424498628
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
BT - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2011 - Rehab Week Zurich 2011
T2 - Rehab Week Zurich 2011 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2011
Y2 - 27 June 2011 through 1 July 2011
ER -