Design and development of an ambulatory autotransfering support for children with cerebral palsy / Projeto e desenvolvimento de um auxiliar deambulatório autotransferente para crianças com paralisia cerebral

AUTOR(ES)

Renan Botega

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

The progressive technological innovations in mechanical engineering contribute to the adoption of new therapeutic procedures for rehabilitation programs. This work addresses the design and development of an ambulatory aid to be used as a way to continue the clinic rehabilitation for people with difficulty or inability in walking independently. Accordingly, we sought to develop a deambulador incorporating new approaches to its basic mechanical design, such as new materials, manufacturing and conformation of the mechanical structure and possible controls of joint mobility. In this context, the volume-weight ratio has been carefully explored in order to make an assist in the efficient running of children and adults with cerebral palsy. The conventional modern-day ambulatory are fundamentally characterized by the level of security provided to users on the move, but do not offer conditions for the auto balance training, which makes them dependent on aid tools to achieve the correct gait. It is therefore important to develop an autotransfer deambulator satisfying the design constraints, with minimum volume and weight, and with the essential characteristic for the rehabilitation of patients with cerebral palsy, without making them dependent on the absence of auto balance. This apparatus that promotes autotransfer and training of auto balance for the user whether adult or child. In this project the deambulador was named Assistant Deambulator Autotransfer (Auxiliary Ambulation Autotransfer) - ADA due to the interplay of movement, which transfers the torque of the lower trunk muscles for the mobilization of the lower limbs. Thus, the ADA may provide situations in which the synaesthetic auto balance the patient will be encouraged to carry out. Thus, the patient may be able to acquire or retrieve the auto balance and confidence to make the training of the march.

ASSUNTO(S)

paralisia cerebral auxiliar deambulatório autotransferente leg orthosis cerebral palsy assistant deambulator autotransfer Órteses de membros inferiores

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