Design improvement on hip standing support for Cerebral Palsy children’s

Abstract

The aim on this research project is to study the design device for cerebral palsy children to sit, stand and walk independently besides to improve the posture to avoid any hip dislocation. The existing product does not have any ergonomic criteria and one equipment is only specialized for one activity which difficult for the children and trainer to transfer from one equipment to another. It is not practical and dangerous for the cerebral palsy children. Besides that, the existing product also lack of specification to correct the posture of hip. Therefore the objective of this final year project is to design user friendly equipment for sitting, standing and walking for cerebral palsy children. Site visit and interview has been done with the occupational therapist and physiotherapist that assist the children during their treatment. The result of the site visit and interview resulting that most of the children have problem with hip dislocation and difficulties to assist children to sit, walk and stand. Thus a study of the mechanism on the existing product is study so that it can be applied onto the new design. ZURB’s Design is being used as guidelines to design a product. A suggestion from the trainer also is being gathered in order to apply it as customer requirement on the product. Besides that, an analysis toward the stiffness of spring as well as friction of wheel and analysis of detail drawing is being done in order to determine that the design is a good design and the design is a success