Open AccessCooperative Walking Equipment for the Elderly
Author(s) -
T. Christina Zhao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1549/3/032006
Subject(s) - physical medicine and rehabilitation , balance (ability) , elderly people , mechanism (biology) , population , physical therapy , preferred walking speed , gerontology , medicine , environmental health , philosophy , epistemology
With the accelerated aging of our country and the increasing proportion of the elderly population, the health problems and quality of life of the elderly population in our country are receiving more and more attention from the society. Due to the aging of physiological function, the old people’s exercise ability is getting weaker and weaker, and the deterioration of exercise function causes various kinds of exercise difficulties, thus making the old people have different degrees of assistance needs in standing, walking and balancing. Based on this, we plan to design a walking aid device to maintain the walking function of the elderly. The device meets the walking requirements of the elderly through the coordination and cooperation of a multi-rod mechanism, a damping mechanism and a slider mechanism. Mainly to reduce the weight of the knee joint of the elderly, while assisting in regular exercise, exercise stimulates physiological activity and reduces physical decline. The device assists the elderly to walk and has three main functions of reducing joint load, increasing balance ability and assisting walking.