歩行の状態を考慮した振り子型松葉杖歩行訓練装置の開発

抄録

Patients who temporarily use crutches may have secondary accidents such as falls due to lack of crutch walking skills. To reduce such a possibility, a device that presents a sensation to be falling was proposed. By training the patient with the device, it is expected that the possibility of a secondary accident would be reduced. A step of a crutch walk motion can be divided into six phases, i.e. , early, middle and late of swing phases and those of stance phases. If the phase in which a crutch user tends to lose the bodily balance easily is identified, a training can be provided specifically for that period. In this paper, we investigated the crutch walk motions through experiments, and its result shows that a training had better be provided for the swing phase.