Wheelchairs and electric cars are the most common ways for patients with mobility difficulties, but the large swing space of wheelchairs and the heavy body of electric cars have become headaches. Therefore, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital and science and technology company jointly developed a personalized somatosensory mobile car that can reverse and rotate in situ, which turned the care for patients into a practical medical aid tool and won the affirmation of the 15th National Innovation Award on 20 18.
Sitting in a wheelchair is always worried about hitting a smart wheelchair.
Chen Xinyuan, director of the neurology department of Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, said that many patients often worry about being hit when they enter the clinic in wheelchairs. At this time, they will think, "If the turning radius of the wheelchair is smaller, will it be all right?" After more than a year of brainstorming with technology companies, a practical and safe personalized somatosensory mobile car was developed.
The concept of joystick of somatosensory sports car can also be used as crutches.
The design concept of the balance wheel of the somatosensory mobile car, coupled with the exclusive patented control platform, can rotate in situ, greatly reducing the turning radius, allowing users to ride on the car and walk easily in a narrow room. Cheng, general manager of the technology company, said that when the vehicle stops, the joystick can be pulled out and turned into a crutch, so that elderly users can not only drive the vehicle for long-distance movement, but also have a crutch to assist in short-distance displacement. It is hoped that the disabled or the elderly can exert their greatest potential in the smallest swing space through the somatosensory mobile car.
People are more likely to be careless indoors, and the place where they often fall is at home.
"In fact, the most likely place for patients to fall is at home," said Director Chen Xinyuan. Many patients with mobility difficulties will be very careful not to fall when they go out, but they are more likely to fall because of the small space at home and indoors. It takes time to treat and recover after a fall, which is easy to cause difficulties in follow-up actions for patients who are already disabled.
Personalized carriers help patients get out of their homes.
Director Chen Xinyuan emphasized that patients with mobility difficulties do not mean that they can never walk. Under the condition of ensuring safety, personalized somatosensory motor vehicle can give patients one more choice, hoping to reduce the risk of patients falling, and then help more patients get up again, go out of their homes and continue their precious lives.
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