Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 28, 2023 - July 01, 2023
On bedside rehabilitation for young children, it is important to perform rehabilitation with voluntary muscle contraction to prevent disuse muscle atrophy. Recovery of physical function requires continuous and repeated rehabilitation. However, that's hard for young children owing to lack of motivation for rehabilitation and having difficulty communicating. In this study, we proposed and developed a bedside rehabilitation assist system for young children that encourages voluntary muscle contraction and continues rehabilitation. The proposed system realizes various rehabilitation, and induces voluntary muscle constructions of the whole body above a set threshold through an interactive myoelectric toy. As the result, we suggested applicability of the proposed system to rehabilitation.
