日本福祉工学会誌 論文 概要

日本福祉工学会誌 Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 34-40 (2008)

坂道におけるシルバーカーを用いた高齢者歩行の評価

宮脇 和人,巖見 武裕

Evaluation in the Gait of Elderly People with the Walker on Slope

Kazuto MIYAWAKI, Takehiro IWAMI

According as our society again, assist machines begin to needed for persons of advanced age. We research and develop a fitness apparatus according to requirement of elderly people. Proposed apparatus which is consisted of a rowing machine and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) can exercise every part of muscle for the persons of advanced age. The rowing mechanism was developed to train rowers. The rowing exercise can train legs and upper effectively. Move over FES can assist the exercise of the leg by using surface electricity stimulus. It confined that the investigated apparatus trained the muscles of the person of advanced age effectively and could cancel exercise shortage.

Key words: Biomechanics, Bio-Motion, Muscle-Skeleton Model, Human Walk, Consumption Energy