RAMBA: Wearable Pneumatic Leg Compression Device

Radial compression guided by mean artery pressure versus standard compression with a pneumatic device (RACOMAP).

BACKGROUND Transradial access is the approach of choice in many laboratories for diagnostic coronariography or percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) because of its lower vascular complication rate than the femoral approach. However, this approach has a higher rate (5-10%) of asymptomatic radial artery (RA) occlusion. METHODS We conducted a prospective, controlled, single-centre trial stud...

StarSystem Intermittent Pneumatic Compression

Wearable Master-Slave Training Device for Lower Limb Constructed with Pneumatic Rubber Artificial Muscles

The purpose of this study is to develop a wearable master-slave lower limb training device for a trainer and a trainee. The developed device is constructed with McKibben type rubber artiåcial muscles and an appliance, a torque sensor. In addition, to prevent applying an excessive torque to the trainee, a reaction torque from the trainee can be transmitted to the trainer by a bilateral type mast...

Development of Pneumatic Wearable Power Assist Device for Human Arm "ASSIST"

In order to realize an assist of independent life for people in need of care and relieve a physical burden for care worker, an active support splint driven by pneumatic soft actuator (ASSIST) to support a human arm has been developed. ASSIST is constructed with the appliance and the rotary-type soft actuator. Since a weight and hardness of device involve a danger of causing a serious accident f...

Development of Wearable Wrist Rehabilitation Device Using Flexible Pneumatic Cylinders and Embedded controller

Recently, the rehabilitation devices using a soft pneumatic actuator for disabled are actively researched and developed because of the insufficient number of PT. In the previous study, the wrist rehabilitation device using flexible robot arm that consisted of three flexible pneumatic cylinders was proposed and tested. In this study, the wearable wrist rehabilitation device is proposed and teste...