EMG TRIGGERED LOWER LIMB REHABILITATION DEVICE FOR STROKE PATIENTS

Abstract

Stroke is becoming a common disease in elderly people which often leads to some functional disability, mainly affecting the stride and sometime in severe case it become permanent dysfunction. It affects one out of six people in the world. This report highlights the aim of the project to manufacture a lower limb rehabilitation device that is capable of performing the duties of physiotherapist to treat the post stroke gait rehabilitation. Robotics plays important role in therapy activities for rehabilitation treatments. This report reviews to observes these perspectives through three different tools, the type of exercises, the physical implantations, and sensorimotor functions. A detailed review has been accomplished in order to meet the final goal. The Literature Review has been comprehensively mentioned in this report and after considering all of the research and data resources, the best possible solution has been chosen, and a complete methodology is designed for lower limb rehabilitation device that is capable of performing the assigned task. A complete manufacturing plan is described. The basic model is designed using the software SOLIDWORKS and the analysis is performed using MATLAB.A Finite Element Analysis is performed on the device which shows stress and strain behavior when the device is in working condition. This report describes the prototype manufacturing of device using 3D printing technology.