Diseño mecánico y simulación de un exoesqueleto de rehabilitación para el mantenimiento y potenciación muscular de hombro para la fundación de niños y niñas especiales “Ayudemos a vivir”

Abstract

There are about 223,738 people who suffer from disabilities of upper limbs in Ecuador (CONADIS, 2018), whether due to strokes, physical accidents, diseases. It is necessary to practice exercise and physical therapy with adequate frequency to improve the quality of life of the population with motor disabilities and avoid subsequent problems, (Asorey & Fernández, 2014). In this way an optimal development and maintenance of the functions of the upper members will be carried out, which will help the beneficiaries to be able to carry out activities for themselves (food, personal hygiene). The “Ayudemos a vivir” boys and girls Foundation located in Conocoto has a load of 25 young people with motor and intellectual disabilities. This device was designed to complement the different techniques used by physiotherapists, and that grants the technical aids and assurances that favor the development of the youth of this center, helping passive movement