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Design & Development of a Sit to Stand and Suspension Device for Treadmill Gait Training
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Farahmand, Farzam (Supervisor) ; Saadat Foumani, Mahmoud (Supervisor)
Abstract
A high percentage of patients with lower extremitiy disability consists of those suffer from paraplegy, hemiparety, spinal cord injuries and chronic stroke. Currently, a wast variety of methods are used for gait rehabilitation of these patients. Beside physiotherapy and different types of exercises, gait trainer systems have been devloped and used recently to help patients to obtain their walking abilities. The main goal of this work was to design and develope a device to lift a patient from sitting position on a chair to standing position in a safe and balanced mode besides obtaining enough space for physiotherapist that can easily help the patient in gait training on treadmill, also to...