Programmable Muscle Stimulator for Activating Paralytic Patients

Defective muscles and associated nerves affect the functioning of the parts of the human body leading to paralysis. In order to provide temporal recovery from paralysis the affected muscles can be identified and stimulated in a periodic sequence by driving required electrical current intensity into the muscle. The amplitude, frequency and pulse width of the muscle current are adjusted to see the response and their values are set up in accordance with the requirements demanded by the seriousness of the muscle defect. A programmable muscle stimulator operated by a microprocessor interfaced to PC is designed to meet this requirement and is reported.