Ambulatory Rehabilitation Suspension System
Devdas Shetty, Claudio Toquinho Campana, Avital Fast · Advances in Bioengineering · 2003
This paper provides a new technique to assist patients during gait rehabilitation and safety support during exercise. The device can also be used by patients who have experienced physical trauma, and in need of assistance so that they can regain the strength needed to support them during rehabilitation. The procedure results in an adjustable gait rehabilitation lifting system and has the ability to support the weight of the user. The apparatus can lift a patient from a sitting position in a wheel chair to a standing position and has the provisions to remove a percentage of the patient’s body weight and recognize subtle changes in elevation. The patient requiring gait rehabilitation would be free to traverse a flat plane and climb a number of stairs and at the same time does not impede free walking and prevents sudden fall of the patient.