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Title:A Study on The Design of An Upper Extremity Orthosis Helping Feeding Activity
Author:Takashi Izumi, Naoya Sakuma, Syuichiro Mori, School of Engineering, Hokkaido Tokai University
Masahito Ogyu, Division of Rehabilitation, Clark Hospital,Shuichi Ino, Tohru Ifukube, Research Institute for Electronic Science , Hokkaido University
Proceedings of 12th Japanese Conference of Advancement of Rehabilitation Technology, Vol.12, pp.443-446
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Abstract:
In this paper, how to design an upper extremity orthosis helping feeding activities is reported. The orthosis is for persons with paralyses in the upper limbs. In order to design it, they make analyses of the arm motions. Several experiments are made on three persons with no paralyses. The authors measure the flexion and the extension on their arms, the pronation and the supination on their wrists, the palmar flexion and the dorsal flexion, and the radial flexion and the ulnar flexion on their hands. They measure these on different three conditions. First, They measure the region of motion on each joints on condition that the objected persons are free. Secondly, they do on condition that the objected persons make feeding activities. And lastly, they do on condition that the objected persons pretend people with paralyses in the upper limbs and feed with their hands and fingers bound. They make a consideration based on the data of the experiments. And they mention the basic design of the upper extremity orthosis helping feeding activities.