Design and development of monitoring device for arm rehabilitation
Arm rehabilitation activities require continuous monitoring process in order to provide information of rehabilitation results to be analyzed by therapist. The purpose of monitoring is to help them to improve rehabilitation process. Moreover, a portable and simple home-based rehabilitation device can...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/2418/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/2418/1/Radzi.pdf |
| Summary: | Arm rehabilitation activities require continuous monitoring process in order
to provide information of rehabilitation results to be analyzed by therapist. The
purpose of monitoring is to help them to improve rehabilitation process. Moreover, a
portable and simple home-based rehabilitation device can help patients to improve
daily rehabiliation activity. Some previous studies regarding home-based
rehabilitation process have shown improvement in promoting human movement
recovery. But existing rehabilitation devices are expensive and need to be supervised
by physical therapist, which are complicated to be used at home. Some devices are
not so efficient to be used at home due to large size and complex system. In this
current work, flex sensor, force sensitive resistors and accelerometer were assessed
in order to be implemented as a sensory unit for a portable arm rehabilitation device.
Analog signal from the sensors will be conveyed to an Arduino microcontroller for
data processing and logging. The device is equipped with online or portable data
logging capabilities which can store daily activity results. The results of
rehabilitation activity can be used for further monitoring and analysis. Experiments
were carried out to determine the feasibility of each sensor towards the design of the
new device. The experiments demonstrate the capabilities of the sensors to produce
extended information regarding arm movement activity which can be implemented in
the design. A liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor will show to the user the
achievement of their exercise activity on daily basis. In conclusion, this project may
pave a new way in the development of new arm rehabilitation monitoring device
which can benefit human lives. |
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