| 摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a walking promoting device in which the skin right above sacrum is stimulated by continuous energization, and the walking is efficiently promoted by properly adjusting a walking speed, a walking figure (way of walking), a step, a lower leg joint angle and a walking cycle (step count in a constant period of time), and thereby to provide a walking function promoting/improving device that improves a walking function of a walking handicapped person, etc.SOLUTION: A walking promoting device is characterized by: having a pair of electrodes attached on a skin part right above both sides of a sacrum center and having a walking promoting device body to output desired electrical stimulation waves to electrodes; using unipolar negative rectangular waves or bipolar rectangular waves with pulse width of 1-500μsecond as the electrical stimulation waves; using a stimulus frequency in the range of 0.5-3 Hz to a patient having a Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonism due to multiple system atrophy; and using the stimulus frequency of 20 Hz-5 kHz to a healthy person and a person of walking handicapped person or difficulty in walking due to other disease to thereby output the electrical stimulation waves.</p> |
