Research of Rehabilitation Device for Hemiplegic Knee Flexion Based on Repetitive Facilitation Exercise

摘要

This paper proposes a functional recovery training device for hemiplegic knee flexion based on the Repetitive Facilitation Exercises, which can realize plasticity of the brain by a special procedure. Based on the Repetitive Facilitation Exercises, a muscle-rapidly-extended facilitating stimulus is proposed to induce knee flexion stretch reflex and cause voluntary knee flexion. Then a power assist control is given to help the voluntary movement and a mechanism is devised to realize the knee rehabilitation. And, it was confirmed that to induce the stretch reflex effectively, using this device by the verification experiment of EMG measurement. In addition, the assist effect at the time of RACC was confirmed.