Design and Simulation of Under Limb Orthosis for Rehabilitation of Paraplegics

Abstract

Lower limb orthosis can be used to replace the loss of functioning of lower limb that causes a lot of inconvenience in carrying out day to day activities. However, wheelchair may assist to some extent it might lead to medical issues. Replacing the wheelchair with rehabilitation devices helps in sorting this issue. Various rehabilitation techniques and devices that are developed are reviewed and their specifications and comparisons are mentioned in brief. A lower limb orthosis is designed using solidworks and the design imported into MATLAB using simmechanics is simulated using simscape multibody and the resulting torques for each joint namely hip, ankle and knee joints are obtained.