| Project/Area Number |
18500447
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
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| Research Institution | Akita Research and Development Center |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYAWAKI Kazuto Akita Research and Development Center, 高度技術研究所, 主任研究員 (00390906)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KUTSUZAWA Keiichi Akita Research and Development Center, 主任研究員 (90390905)
OGASWARA Yuji Akita Research and Development Center, 上席研究員 (20390908)
IWAMI Takehiro Akita university, 工学資源学部, Lecturer (10259806)
SHIMADA Yoichi Akita university, 医学部, Professor (90162685)
OBINATA Goro Nagoya university, エコトピア科学研究機構, Professor (50111315)
森 英季 秋田県産業技術総合研究センター, 上席研究員 (60370227)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
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| Keywords | Rehabilitation / System dynamics |
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| Research Abstract |
This development of machines and equipment to make elderly people healthy in their daily lives is important these days. Especially, resistance training equipment is effective for prevention of muscle atrophy in not only healthy adult people, but also the elderly people, and even disabled individuals. Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) is the artificial stimulation of muscle which have lost nervous control, with the aim of providing muscular contraction and producing a functional useful movement for exercise, standing, and walking. Some authors demonstrated that FES-rowing for persons with spinal cord injury was safe and it also decreased the risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Based on a new concept to effectively restrengthen disused muscles and to enable whole body exercise in seniors or paraplegics, we developed a hybrid power rehabilitation equipment including FES technology. The purpose of this study was to develop a new FES-rowing machine which the elderly and paraplegic patients could use for safe and effective rehabilitation exercise.
Smooth and orderly phase-to-phase and cycle-to-cycle transitions are necessary for successful rowing exercises, which must be achieved by delicate coordination of voluntary and FES movements. For this study, we designed a new type of FES Rowing machine. We developed rehabilitation equipment that elderly and paraplegic people were able to use for safe and effective exercise. This is an important characteristic of this machine; the stimulator uses medium frequency current, making it possible to obtain sufficient muscle contraction with no discomfort, in contrast to methods using low-frequency current. We evaluated the characteristics of the rowing movement experimentally. Our results prove that safe and effective training is possible for elderly and paraplegic people during FES-rowing. Further research is necessary for commercial use.
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