Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 08, 2016 - June 11, 2016
Recent years, height of percentage of the person who has subjective symptom of such lower back pain is presented as a problem in aging society. Brace therapy is one of the methods of treatment for lower back pain. However the method of treatment has possibility to cause muscle deterioration by wearing invariably for a corset. On the other hand, it is difficult for such senior citizens and handicapped person to do removable the corset. Therefore, this paper proposed development of the corset that built pneumatic soft actuators and has on/off switching function in order to solve the problem.
