In order to perform walk rehabilitation for the patients who cannot maintain their standing postures eaely, seat-style walk training robot is under development in our laboratory. By this robot, trainees can make walk rehabilitation in the sitting posture. However, the rehabilitation performance of this robot was not evaluated in quantity.
In this study, we proposed an evaluation method of rehabilitation performance by measuring the sEMG of lower limb muscle during walking in sitting position. Specifically, the sEMG signal of muscular for walking forth, back, right and left by changing the seat height was measured in this research. The usefulness walk training by the seat-style walk training robot was verified.
