The Innovative Knee Osteoarthritis Brace with Dynamic self-adjustability of valgus moment

• Main Authors: Chia-Wei Lin, 林家瑋
• Other Authors: shang-chih Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75981548866070199464

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 生物醫學工程研究所 === 99 === Due to the changes of living style and the progress of the medical science, human beings’ average life is more and more prolonged. It brings out that elder patients are getting much more year by year. Many kinds of disease, which easily occurs to elders, are also getting raising. The most obvious example is the Osteoarthritis. According to the statistics, there are almost 33% elders around the age of 65 suffer from the Osteoarthritis. There are two clinical therapies for this disease, one is Knee Brace, and the other is Total Knee Replacement. However, Osteolysis and Aseptic Loosening would happen due to the incursive surgery such as Total Knee Replacement. Knee Brace will not cause any complications, and it can improve abnormal force endured at Patients’ knees. There are three main problems for the Knee Brace. First, Knee Brace is cumbersome. Second, Wearing Knee Brace is uncomfortable. Third, Knee Brace have to self-adjustability of valgus moment. In this study, the unilateral post Knee Brace, dynamic correction angle mechanism to reduce uncomfortable during swing phase and sit posture,adjustment correction angle mechanism to adjust valgus moment to solve the problems. According to dynamic simulation, finite-element simlation, prototype, exprimental test demonstrated the design has feasibly in this study.