The 21st Century Rehabilitation Research Society (1998 - 2000)
Aim at Establishment of the Life Stage
- Problem which Became Clear from the Walker Development -
2018 Volume 2018 Issue 1 Pages 8-
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2018 Volume 2018 Issue 1 Pages 8-
We describe the development method and application development of rollator (Walker) as an auxiliary device. The establishment of the life stage means living with the 6 leg walk adding to the Sphinx’ question of people’s living.
There were reports of development with NEDO Grant until now at a large number. They were development reports of the new goods based on a new idea, the safety at the time of using, the user-friendliness from a utilizer, etc.
Henry Ford has improved the car which was a domain of the hobby of privileged people, such as an aristocrat, as a general transportation device and the means of transportation of cargo, and improved the quality of the life of human beings ago. This is an example of method development or usage development.
It has been said that a walker is not helpful to rehabilitation till today (in 2000) in Japan. It was not effective compared with the use in a foreign country in the Japanese residence where the level difference of a bump as an entrance is specific, either. The walker also might be called a stand to place personal belongings and a clothes pole at home after leaving the hospital. There were several kinds in a walker, and there was a problem, respectively; a four-point type was difficult to walk freely, a rollator was large then it was hard to use at a narrow place and slid on it too much, and user fell, and it caused a fracture. Moreover, there was not any walker of bigness good to use indoors enable to exceed a level difference (a bump as an entrance) until now (in 2000). Furthermore, there was a little recommendation of positive use even with the textbook concerning physiotherapy related to use at the spot of rehabilitation.
We continued the proposal to the independent living by using a walker. It was not only device development but method development of changing a lifestyle by using, acquires the move capability in a house, and enable to live independently, namely, the expansion of a life stage.
In other words, it is the development project of social reformation taking into consideration. It was an important usage development that enabled to compare social reformation by the car of Ford which allowed 100 - 300 km distance movement with independent living by acquiring independence of toileting as freedom of 1 - 10 meters’ move in the home.
