Application of Sit-To-Stand Assistive Device Based on Hip Support

Title:Application of Sit-To-Stand Assistive Device Based on Hip Support

Volume: 14 Issue: 4

Author(s): Huaiqiang Zhang, Qiang Xue*, Shuo Yang, Tongtong Wang and Binwei Zhou

Affiliation:

• Tianjin Key Laboratory of Integrated Design and On-Line Monitoring for Light Industry and Food Engineering Machinery and Equipment, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin 300222,China

Keywords: Sit-to-stand, lower limb dysfunction, rehabilitation training, assistive device, hip support, Sit-to-stand Assistive Devices (SADs).

Abstract:

Background: Completing the transition from a sitting position to a standing position is a major activity in people’s daily lives and is crucial for independent living. Lower limb dysfunction will bring many inconveniences into a person’s life and greatly affect their quality of life. Patients with lower limb dysfunction are a specialized group, and nursing problems for this group are becoming increasingly serious. Helping patients with lower limb dysfunction restore their lower limb mobility or assisting them to walk is a social problem necessary to be solved.

Objective: To review the recent sit-to-stand assistive devices based on hip support, classify them systematically and introduce their characteristics, including the mechanisms and the types of patients for which such mechanisms are applicable; to help patients with lower limb dysfunction or doctors (therapists) understand and choose a reasonable sit-to-stand assist device based on hip support.

Methods: This paper summarizes literatures and patents about sit-to-stand assistive devices. From the aspects of structural characteristics, drive type and support modes based on the hip and applications situation, the advantages and disadvantages of the typical sit-to-stand assist devices are represented.

Results: Current and future development trends on the structural characteristics, drive type and support modes based on the hip and applications situation of sit-to-stand assist devices are discussed to improve the humanization, modularization and applicability of sit-to-stand assist devices.

Conclusion: Sit-to-stand assistive devices based on hip support can help patients improve the quality of their life, assist patients carrying out rehabilitation training, and delay the decline of lower limb function. However, the existing sit-to-stand assistive devices based on hip support need further improvement in the aspects of motion mechanism, new technology application and ergonomics design.

Cite this article as:

Zhang Huaiqiang , Xue Qiang *, Yang Shuo, Wang Tongtong and Zhou Binwei , Application of Sit-To-Stand Assistive Device Based on Hip Support, Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering 2021; 14 (4) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2212797614666210216110615