Eventos Anais de eventos
COBEM 2021
26th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
DEVELOPMENT, DESIGN AND BUILT OF AN ISOINERTIAL EQUIPMENT FOR PHYSIOTHERAPY APPLICATION
Submission Author:
Marcos Alves Rabelo , SC
Co-Authors:
Marcos Alves Rabelo, Andrea Piga Carboni, Antônio Dourado
Presenter: Marcos Alves Rabelo
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2021.COB2021-0113
Abstract
Motivated by physiotherapy interests and economic reasons, an academic research was developed to design and built a prototype isoinertial device with training data acquisition. An isoinertial is a device used to work the resistance and maximal muscle force, independent of the angle, maintaining a constant inertia in both the concentric and eccentric phases during muscles contraction. A set of flywheels maintains a continuous inertia, which could be variable changing the flywheels. This kind of device is important to rehabilitate injured athletes and ordinary people allowing the physiotherapist work muscles and tendons so as to replicate the human body movements in many situations. A benchmarking analysis was carried out among the existing equipment and the mains functions reviewed. The isoinertial device was built using materials commonly found in hardware stores and the main structure had the parts welded. The other components like bearings, axle, inertia discs, rope and pulley were purchased and adapted. An aluminum floor was riveted to the structure. A rotary encoder was adapted to the prototype with a display showing instantaneous torque, maximum torque, number of repetitions and rpm. The data are recorded and analyzed by each patient. A set of patients, including athletes and ordinary people, have been investigated and the results of their evolution analyzed.
Keywords
Isoinertial, Physiotherapy Device, muscular activity, Muscle Hypertrophy, Injury Recovery
