Construcción de un bipedestor para rehabilitación y estimulación de caminata pasiva para niños paraplejicos de 2 a 3 años.

Abstract

This degree work shows the construction of a standing frame that allows a bipedal position for children from 2 to 3 years with physical disabilities in their lower extremities, offering physical and psychological rehabilitations. The purpose is to achieve a passive walk of children and in the future take advantage of the first years to strengthen the muscles. In this case, the standing frame was built for a child from the Riobamba city, contributing to his daily rehabilitation by strengthening the structures of the lower limbs and improving the functioning of his vital organs. The design was based on average anthropometric measurements of children in Ecuador from 2 to 3 years old, a static analysis was made in the Solidworks software for the selection of the material and the structural tube has been chosen as one of the materials for the construction of the strongest structure. It has wood coatings for electrical and pneumatic installations. And also it includes a safety harness to support the child covered with upholstered sponges to avoid any kind of knock or impact preventing accidents. For the automation system it has a graphical interface where it shows the patient data and the pneumatic cylinder on and off buttons, this set is used with open source which are tools and open codes like free software and hardware, a Raspberry pi 3 Model B + and an Arduino have been used that control the movement of the machine and the solenoid valve to perform rehabilitation exercises for sitting and standing. It is concluded through this research that a standing frame could be developed, designing and implementing an automated mechanical design, recommending to use the safety harness attached to the legs each time the rehabilitation is started and to have the accompaniment of adults.