Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
In order to suppress tremor of tremor patients, such as essential tremor patients, many kinds of devices have been developed. In this paper, a new tremor suppression method is investigated. When a vibration stimulus is applied to a human muscle, a sustained contraction called the tonic vibration reflex occurs in the stimulated muscle. Suppression of the user’s tremor might be possible using tonic vibration reflex by applying vibration to the muscles. In this study, vibration is added to pronator teres muscle and supinator muscle, and the out-of-phase motion of the tremor is generated during the vibration stimulation.
