Researchers Create Robot Fake Leg - Dutch researchers have successfully created a prototype robot leg that can help patients with stroke or spinal cord injuries to enhance their movements. This device is known as a Powered Lower-extremity exoskeleton (LOPES). This foot robotic devices able to work well, if the patient's body prior to training. It is in order patients can recover their steps to be able to move more naturally.
LOPES was developed by engineers at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands. This is not a mobile device and also indirectly make the patient able to walk straight, but advise patients to keep doing rehabilitation first, like walking on a treadmill. Red Orbit is quoted on Monday (9/26/2011).
The scientists who designed the device is hoped that such devices will begin to be produced and available to meet a wider range of facilities around the year 2012.
LOPES patients reportedly can be used in order to run properly, or can be adapted to provide support for only one leg and help only with one aspect of the process running.
"Some people can not lift their feet properly. By using this device, patients feel that their legs can not be removed properly. Therefore, we compare it with the pattern of references and about providing the force or torque to help the patient do this correctly , "explains Dr. Edwin van Asseldonk, one expert LOPES makers.
One female patient, Petra Hes given the opportunity to try LOPES, he previously had a stroke and was no longer able to move his feet (left foot) since the age of 17 years.
HES felt his left leg can move back as before, but researchers believe it triggered something in the central nervous system or act as a 'memory aid'. This allows the Hes to recall how he can move his own feet.
"I have moments of fun because I felt again the old feelings about how to walk normally. This memdorong me to better feel and lift my own knees that have previously been forgotten. I can not do it alone so I have to feel it again," said Hes.
According to the official website LOPES, prototype robot leg was the highest achievement since the start of work to make a variety of such devices in 2001.
Researchers Create Robot Fake LegLOPES was developed by engineers at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands. This is not a mobile device and also indirectly make the patient able to walk straight, but advise patients to keep doing rehabilitation first, like walking on a treadmill. Red Orbit is quoted on Monday (9/26/2011).
The scientists who designed the device is hoped that such devices will begin to be produced and available to meet a wider range of facilities around the year 2012.
LOPES patients reportedly can be used in order to run properly, or can be adapted to provide support for only one leg and help only with one aspect of the process running.
"Some people can not lift their feet properly. By using this device, patients feel that their legs can not be removed properly. Therefore, we compare it with the pattern of references and about providing the force or torque to help the patient do this correctly , "explains Dr. Edwin van Asseldonk, one expert LOPES makers.
One female patient, Petra Hes given the opportunity to try LOPES, he previously had a stroke and was no longer able to move his feet (left foot) since the age of 17 years.
HES felt his left leg can move back as before, but researchers believe it triggered something in the central nervous system or act as a 'memory aid'. This allows the Hes to recall how he can move his own feet.
"I have moments of fun because I felt again the old feelings about how to walk normally. This memdorong me to better feel and lift my own knees that have previously been forgotten. I can not do it alone so I have to feel it again," said Hes.
According to the official website LOPES, prototype robot leg was the highest achievement since the start of work to make a variety of such devices in 2001.
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