Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 27, 2020 - May 30, 2020
Patients with respiratory diseases need to improve their thorax mobility. Thoracic excursion is one of the basic evaluation indexes for evaluating respiration function. Chest expansion training is often conducted to increase the thoracic excursion. However, it is difficult for the patients to keep the motivation for this rehabilitation. In this research, we developed a simple thoracic excursion measurement system with real-time visual bio-feedback in the chest expansion test. In addition, this system was produced by Takei Scientific Instruments Co., Ltd from 2013. In this paper, we illustrated a part of the experimental results in the development phase and introduced commercialized product. In the experiment by 33 healthy subjects, we suggested that the system was effective for measuring thoracic excursion from comparing the measurement result by tape. And we also continued to measure by physical therapist and to analyze the effect of biofeedback in the chest expansion test.
