Measurement of Rehabilitation and Modeling of MP Joint for Rheumatoid Arthritis

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26630081
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Dynamics/Control
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: Tsujiuchi Nobutaka 同志社大学, 理工学部, 教授 (60257798)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ITO Akihito 同志社大学, 理工学部, 准教授 (60516946)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 運動制御 / バイオメカニクス / リハビリテーション / 関節モデル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients in Japan are about eight hundred thousand. 80-90% of RA patients develop to the hands and wrist. When developing these, causing the dislocation and deformation of the finger. As treatment for subluxation due to RA, there is a rehabilitation by hand therapy, but therapist is not enough. Therefore a device for rehabilitation of thumb MP joint subluxation has been developed. To improve the device, it is necessary to clear the dynamics of hand therapy. Therefore, the authors tried to measurement two kind of rehabilitation by using motion capture and contact force sensor, and we will try develop the simulation function model for curative effect evaluations of hand therapy for RA. To develop simulation model, we think method of modeling of joint in rehabilitation and estimating the model parameters using measured data and inertia data from skeleton model scaling per subject in SIMM.

Free Research Field

機械工学