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Designing a Rehabilitation Equipment with Intelligent Metallic Elements
Designing a Rehabilitation Equipment with Intelligent Metallic Elements

Author(s): Adela-Ioana Ursanu
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law
Published by: Universitatea Tehnică "Gheorghe Asachi" din Iaşi
Keywords: medical rehabilitation; shape memory alloy; nitinol; super-elasticity; exercises.

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I outline the design of a post-traumatic rehabilitation system for the elbow joint that uses intelligent elements to activate the flexion/extension movement. Based on anthropometric data from humans, I designed and made a rehabilitation system adjustable on the arm and forearm, using an intelligent shape-memory alloy for flexion and a superelastic experimental alloy for extension.

  • Issue Year: 63/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 59-64
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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