Takhashi Yoshiyuki, Komeda Takashi, Koyama Hiroyuki, Yamamoto S-Ichiro, Arimatsu Takayuki, Kawakami Yukio, Inoue Kaoru, Ito Yuko
Toyo University, Asaka, Japan.
IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot. 2011;2011:5975510. doi: 10.1109/ICORR.2011.5975510.
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.
物理治疗师在帮助人们从疾病和身体残疾中恢复社交生活方面发挥着重要作用。然而，他们只能从实践经验中获得技能。物理治疗师实习生只能通过临床实践培训来丰富经验，而这种机会是有限的。因此，我们一直在开发上肢患者模拟器，它能再现肘关节的僵硬程度，以使实习生有更多机会进行物理治疗的实践操作。当实习生试图弯曲患者的肘关节时，该系统通过产生肘关节的僵硬程度来再现疾病。我们开发了一个机械部件和一个控制系统来实现患者的病情状况，整个系统已经由经验丰富的物理治疗师进行了评估。
