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Patients suffering from affections of the lower limb bearing joints account for a significant number of the total of post-traumatic conditions. It is the task of rehabilitation medicine to expedite the recovery of such patients, one of the recovery techniques being Continuous Passive Motion (CPM). Applying recovery-aimed motions to the lower limb joints – known as passive motions - requires the development of new high-performance equipment. The paper presents and discusses the kinematics, construction and actuation of a novel rehabilitation device actuated by a pneumatic muscle developed for the recovery of the ankle by continuous passive motion. Due to the used energy source - compressed air - the end-of-stroke shocks are completely absorbed and user discomfort is thus minimized.
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Deaconescu, A., Deaconescu, T. (2020). Pneumatic Equipment for Ankle Rehabilitation by Continuous Passive Motion. In: Zeghloul, S., Laribi, M., Sandoval Arevalo, J. (eds) Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics. RAAD 2020. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 84. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48989-2_2
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