Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : September 09, 2018 - September 12, 2018
Age-related balance disorder is a major risk of fall and injury. These elderlies tend to keep balance using Hip strategy, and this postural control strategy is contributed to decrease of specific leg muscle's activities and movement of ankle angles. Therefore, we proposed a new type balance training system, which consists of two movable plates, and developed a prototype device as a preliminary study. In this study, in order to evaluate this prototype system, we carried out experiment in healthy person. As a result, we got the knowledge of decrease of the hip angles after using of prototype system. This result indicates that prototype system is effective for people who tend to use hip strategy.
