Wheelchair for Physiotherapy

Science Project



Wheelchair for Physiotherapy

Science Project

By

Sorawit Saisuwan


Adviser

T. Ruchira Thongsrisuk

Piyamaharachalai School




Abstract

Currently, there are a large number of patients who require physical therapy. In order to reduce travel expenses and save time in traveling to receive physical therapy at the hospital The author therefore devised a wheelchair physiotherapy. With the objective, In order to create a physiotherapy tool that can exercise the arms, legs, fingers, wrists, combined with a moving wheelchair Then take a physical wheelchair for usage evaluation and seek advice from a physical therapist. Nakhon Phanom Hospital

The steps in creating the physiotherapy equipment are 1) the design of physiotherapy equipment that can exercise the fingers which is designed to have the base of the tool that will be combined with a wheelchair and designed for the exercise tools for the fingers using the ball to exercise the fingers when getting the draft, choose the suitable material for fabrication, which the author chose to use PVC pipe to fabricate the base of the tool and put the finger management ball next to the fabricated base 2) Design of physiotherapy equipment that can exercise the arm muscles which is designed to be over 30 centimeters in height over the head to be able to exercise many forms, which will affect many arm muscles and use a rope with a weighted sand bag that can adjust the weight to suit the patient when receiving the draft, choose the suitable material which the author chose to use PVC pipe in fabrication by fixing the pipe to the cart and the end of the cart, on the top there is a place to lay the rope with a weighted sand bag 3) The design of physiotherapy equipment that can exercise the leg muscles, which are designed to provide flexibility attached to the wheelchair, and another part of the flexibility is sandbags to fasten the ankle and sandbag designs to tighten the joints. per Feet to prevent problems when using the wheelchair when receiving the body. It is built using a 25 cm long rubber band attached to the wheelchair and on the other side there is a sandbag for fastening the ankle so that it can adjust the weight to suit the patient.

According to the assessment of the physiotherapist staff, The physiotherapy wheelchair can be practically used and is as effective as traveling to a hospital for physical therapy. The production team did not actually experiment with the patients because they had to consider the ethics of human research.

Keywords cart, physiotherapy, physiotherapy, research ethics in humans