足関節用CPM装置の開発

抄録

Living in a bed and a wheelchair on daily basis reduces muscle strength, causing decreases in various mental and physical functions. Such functional deteriorations are collectively called the disuse syndrome. In order to overcome the disuse syndrome, to move joints and muscles is very important. Ankle contracture is one of the disuse syndromes of the lower limbs. CPM devices can often prevent/improve the symptom. But the distributed devices cannot dorsiflex ankles alternately with strong power. We then develop the simple CPM device which has small size, high power, and ankles' interlocking system. The structure and evaluation are described in this paper.