The exoskeleton suit for patient's rehabilitation

Abstract

Rehabilitation is to restore some or all of the patient's physical, sensory, and mental capabilities that are lost due to injury, illness or disease. Rehabilitation helps the patient in regaining the ability to do normal everyday tasks. This may be successful by restoring skills to adjust disabilities through adaptive instrument, orthotics, and modification of the patient's home environment. So, this paper may serve as a good example of a design for rehabilitation instrument. The arm exoskeleton suit is developed for patient's rehabilitation purpose. The motion of instrument should not obstruct patient's natural motion and be comfortable and safer to use. The kinematic exoskeleton suit for patient's arms is simulated by MATLAB software. The exoskeleton suit of patient's arm consists of one link length, three link twists, two link offsets and three joint angles. This paper introduces the kinematic of exoskeleton suit for patient's arm. It will help the handicapped patients or increase the strength of humans who can lift heavy loads, but cannot use their arms. © 2011 Pushpa Publishing House.