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Open Sesame Documentation

About

This is the documentation for the group Open Sesame Project for the HCARD module, in March 2019.

The project is hosted on Github: https://github.com/Antimony51122/Open-Sesame

The Project Members:

Mechanical
  • Federica Spinola
  • Florence Wu
  • Vincent Ziliang Song
Sensor Communications
  • Junke Yao
  • George Rui Zhou
Software & UI Design
  • Renke Huang

With special thanks to: Dr Tomoki Arichi from King’s College

For enquiries on this documentation or source code, please contact rh3014@ic.ac.uk

Background

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a very common neurological disorder, with over 3 in 2000 babies being diagnosed each year worldwide. The hip is a complex ball-and-socket joint, which primary function is to support the body’s weight and to perform the movement of the upper legs. The majority of patient with CP develop spasticity. About 35% of CP patients suffer from hips displacement, which is caused by the involuntary tightening of the muscle. This places an abnormal force around the hip joint and the neighbour muscles, which could lead to the dislocation of the hip. 1 in 3 patients are affected by hip dislocation and some may need surgery, yet little effective interventions have been developed for lower limb rehabilitation despite its potential of prevention. Conventional rehabilitation of the hip requires the assistance of a specialised physiotherapist and thus is usually carried out only few times a week due to high cost and non-motivating nature of the exercises.

In this project a low-cost device with an attractive and fun game interface is designed and developed to help improve lower-limb mobility by guiding the training of the patient’s hip joint rotation. The following report describes and discusses in detail the mechanical, the electronic and the software components of the full system.

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