New rehabilitation device for those with leg injuries
CHELYABINSK, Russia: Scientists have invented a rehabilitative device that allows the use of all the joints of lower limb.
It can be used to rehabilitate those with serious leg injuries, to teach children with cerebral palsy to walk and also to train athletes.
Scientists at the Souith Ural State University (SUSU) have been working on the device for four years and are ready to create a prototype for testing.
Commenting on the advantages of using the device, researcher Aleksey Petrov said: “We have developed a mechatronic rehabilitation device for people with lower limbs injuries. This technology has a name of Continuous Passive Motion. Our aim is to make one’s lower limb again movable as in a post-surgical period a man’s organism undergoes different processes which prevent it.”
It can be used only in cases of rehabilitation after knee-joints or hip-joints injuries. It is largely seen as a aid for physiotherapy.
Rehabilitation must begin from the second day after surgery. A patient’s leg is fixed to the device. Limbs are controlled with the aid of engine rotation in the device.
Said researcher Aleksey Aleksandrovich: “Thanks to this we can settle a precise path of motion and teach the patients to walk. Analogous devices in this case are less precise and they do not give a possibility of maximum correct control.”