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Design and Analysis of a Wearable Robot for Rehabilitation of Ankle Joint
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Farahmand, Farzam (Supervisor) ; Abbaspour, Madjid (Co-Advisor) ; Behzadipour, Saeed (Co-Advisor)
Abstract
Worldwide, stroke is the third leading cause of death, after cancer and cardiac diseases. Not only Stroke may lead to death, but its complications are critical, such as: Paralysis, Dysarthria, Cognition Disorders, etc. Improvement from these complications and also preventing from new ones, define the rehabilitation field; in other words, rehabilitation process tries to recover the movement ability of these patients. Today rehabilitation robots are helping these process to be faster and more comfortable, for both patients and physiotherapists. Purpose of this research, is design of a robot for performing rehabilitation process, to lower physiotherapy duration and lower the exhaustion of...