Abstract
Hemiplegic patients caused a foot drop and cannot be grounded in the heel. Therefore the heel rocker does not work. Currently, although the AFO is used for them, its dorsiflexion assistance is not enough for the patients, and it has not been adapted to the heel rocker support. In order to solve the problems, we had developed the artificial muscle-driven high-dorsiflexion support RT first prototype. However, the responsiveness of the artificial muscle is too slow to support the heel rocker. In addition, it cannot be adapted to the cadence. Therefore, we developed the high-dorsiflexion support RT second prototype which is adaptable to cadence and incorporated the spring system compensates to solve the problem of slow responsiveness.
