TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a patient simulator for physical therapy exercise of the upper limb
AU - Takahashi, Yoshiyuki
AU - Yamamoto, Shin Ichiro
AU - Inoue, Kaoru
AU - Komeda, Takashi
AU - Arimatsu, Takayuki
AU - Ito, Yuko
AU - Koyama, Hiroyuki
AU - Kawakami, Yukio
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - Physical therapists play an important role to help people to regain social life after a disease or 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 the 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 simulated patient's arm elbow joint. 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 therapists play an important role to help people to regain social life after a disease or 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 the 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 simulated patient's arm elbow joint. 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/MECATRONICS.2012.6451038
DO - 10.1109/MECATRONICS.2012.6451038
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874463497
SN - 9781467347716
T3 - 2012 9th France-Japan and 7th Europe-Asia Congress on Mechatronics, MECATRONICS 2012 / 13th International Workshop on Research and Education in Mechatronics, REM 2012
SP - 391
EP - 396
BT - 2012 9th France-Japan and 7th Europe-Asia Congress on Mechatronics, MECATRONICS 2012 / 13th International Workshop on Research and Education in Mechatronics, REM 2012
T2 - Joint 2012 9th France-Japan and 7th Europe-Asia Congress on Mechatronics, MECATRONICS 2012 and 13th International Workshop on Research and Education in Mechatronics, REM 2012
Y2 - 21 November 2012 through 23 November 2012
ER -