Muscle activity and gait analysis of assistive device for gait abnormalities patient

Komaruddin, Nurul Hamizan (2021) Muscle activity and gait analysis of assistive device for gait abnormalities patient. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Gait abnormality (GA) is a muscle disorder that disabling the patient to walk properly. This is caused by several factors including genetic influence, accident history, health issue, and others. Some who suffered from this illness can be cured but there are some other cases which the patients are not be able to be fully cured and only can be helped by physiotherapy. The disability to walk properly caused by this muscle disorder can affect the patient's daily activities as they feel the difficulty to walk properly as a normal person could. An assistive device to help the patient to walk has been developed however the effectiveness on the device's performance to serve its purpose has not yet been confirmed. Therefore, an electrical tool known as the Electromyography (EMG) is being used to obtain the information required. Besides, this research is to analyse the comparison of the patient's nervous system with the assistant device and without the device. In addition, the main purposes of this research is to study the effectiveness of the assistive device in reducing the muscle contraction faced by the patients at the same time to increase the time-to-fatigue of the muscle. Thus, the findings of this research show that the reduction in percent of average RMS (root mean square) value to the patient’s contraction muscle when using the device which in return has increase the time-to-fatigue of the muscle. Last but not least, this research has achieved the objective which is to minimize the muscle fatigues in order to ease the patient in their daily chores.

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