E-Crutch: A Promising tool for Rehabilitative Patients

In earlier days,physiotherapists trained the rehabilitative patients in a progressive manner such as giving them a solution for their aid. But the major disadvantage is to find the issues faced by the elders while using the crutch without their knowledge. Our designed e-crutch helps us to train and alert the user to use the device wisely without any side effects. It majorly helps the patients suffering from long term spondylysis,fracture and spinal stenosis. The pain is in a excessive manner since the patients are unaware of their usage. The area which we highlight in our device is force,acceleratio,non invasive varicose vein therapy and lighting system. The first case is alerting the user when he s putting excessive force on the crutch without his/her knowledge will be notified by a haptic vibration. The posture of the body is a very important factor in the field of physiotherapy where the posture condition of patient moving excessively forward and backward will be displayed in the Lcd display present in the crutch module. A non invasive therapy system is also enclosed with the crutch to give a relief based on temperature and these modules together is termed a E-crutch. The notification of the user parameters will be sent to the care taker via GSM module. This particularly helps in the case of Alzheimer affected individuals. So,our ultimate aim is to design a E-crutch which will be useful to the elderly society.