Title :
Development of new Passive Exercise Equipment inducing contraction of functional muscles around knee joint without pain
Author :
Ozawa, Takahisa ; Shinomiya, Youichi ; Ochi, Kazuhiro ; Nagasaki, Masaru ; Uno, Tomoko ; Sato, Yuzo ; Ishida, Kenji ; Kimura, Tetsuhiko
Author_Institution :
Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Kadoma, Osaka, 571-8686, JAPAN
Abstract :
A new type of “Passive Exercise Equipment” has been developed, which can induce muscular contraction of the functional muscles around knee joint. Not only user s who are not eager to exercise but also patients with both type 2 diabetes and knee joint osteoarthritis can perform exercise just by following our equipment´s motion while sitting on it. In order to reduce knee joint pain, the equipment has three types of original functions. Our experiments, using the equipment, shows that (1) from a subjective evaluation by persons with knee joint osteoarthritis, knee joint pain was smaller than that of walking on a flat surface area, (2) glucose uptake was significantly enhanced from the Euglycemic Clamp study for both young healthy persons and elder persons with type 2 diabetes, and (3) 12 weeks training using the equipment has improved the rating of the knee joint osteoarthritis.
Keywords :
Diabetes; Horses; Knee; Leg; Legged locomotion; Medical treatment; Muscles; Osteoarthritis; Pain; Thigh; Biomechanics; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Electromyography; Equipment Design; Exercise Therapy; Glucose; Humans; Isotonic Contraction; Knee Joint; Muscle Contraction; Muscle, Skeletal; Osteoarthritis, Knee; Pain Measurement; Range of Motion, Articular; Time Factors;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649947