ACTIVE MOVEMENT TRAINING DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS

摘要

A rehabilitation machine can have a chassis with actuators positioned behind a patient area. The actuators can have supports projecting toward the patient area and can have respective adapters shaped to engage the legs of a patient at the thigh, the calf, and the foot while the patient is in a standing or walking posture. The actuators can also have motors, transition elements, and linkages connected to apply moments through the adapters to achieve, for each leg, hip adduction/abduction, hip flexion/extension, knee flexion/extension, and foot plantar flexion/dorsiflexion according to signals from a controller. The actuators can be confined to a space, largely behind the patient, such that free arm swing is permitted when the patient is attached.

主权项

1. A rehabilitation machine, comprising:
a chassis with actuators positioned behind a patient area; the actuators having supports projecting toward the patient area and having respective adapters shaped to engage the legs of a patient at the thigh, the calf, and the foot while the patient is in a standing or walking posture; the actuators having motors, transition elements, and linkages connected to apply moments through said adapters to achieve, for each leg, hip adduction/abduction, hip flexion/extension, knee flexion/extension, and foot plantar flexion/dorsiflexion according to signals from a controller; the actuators being confined to a space, largely behind the patient, such that free arm swing is permitted when the patient is attached.