scholarly journals All-inclusiveness: The place of assistive devices for persons with disabilities in the Covid-19 pandemic era

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Rufus Olanrewaju Adebisi ◽  
Hammed Gbenga Adewale
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Devices ◽  
Assistive Device ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The Social ◽  
Equal Right ◽  
Social Separation

An efficacious confrontation to the blowing-out of Covid-19 known as coronavirus have emanated to rely comprehensively on the innovation of assistive devices to flow the indispensable information about the bearing waves of a plague inducted as “Covid-19 or Corona virus”; bridge the social gap flanked by special need condition in the midst of social separation; safeguard the robustness of persons with disabilities (across the ages) during Covid-19 pandemic and ensure the “stay safe” crusade is not epitomized with ostracism. In that case, the immersion of assistive device for swiftness of all-encompassing healthy society particularly that of persons with disabilities is preordained. Whereas handling dynamism nature of persons with disabilities on the ground of equal right with their ‘abled’ counterparts calls for assistive devices. This paper explores the effect of assistive devices in making persons with disabilities evolve with their essence and existence as well as playing own quota in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic. It also describes Covid-19 in relation to persons with disabilities to set a scale of balance on multiplicity nature of human using assistive devices as mechanism for inclusion of all and sundry particularly that of persons with disabilities. Therefore, saving and securing lives and livelihoods of persons with disabilities during Covid-19 era is only achievable through uncompromising influence of assistive devices.

scholarly journals Development of an assistive device for adaptive cycling

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rúben Almeida ◽  
Paulo Amaro ◽  
Luis Roseiro
Keyword(s):  
Composite Shell ◽  
Fibre Composite ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Assistive Devices ◽  
Assistive Device ◽  
Carbon Fibre Composite ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
System A ◽  
Physical Limitations ◽  
The Right

Abstract Background Biomechanics literature has widely recognised the importance of creating modifying conditions for Sports for Persons with Disabilities, such as assistive devices. In this context, it is key that the motor function capacity and physical limitations of each person be taken into due account, leading to highly personalised equipment. This project optimised an assistive device for an adaptive cyclist that rides only with the right leg due to a transtibial amputation on the left leg, which remains supported by the assistive device, classifying him as C2 category for competitions, according to Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The purpose was to improve the comfort, ergonomics, and safety of the cyclist. Methods Reverse engineering, 3D modelling and manufacturing were the methodology applied to design the device with a crank-arm, a quick step-in pedal type clamp system, a carbon fibre composite shell, adapting the pedal position to support the cyclist stump, and an aluminium alloy 7075-T6 component to anchor to the seat post, providing stability to his body. Results The device which provided stability to the athlete's body was submitted to static and dynamic laboratory tests and real-life (in-track) try-outs. The developed clump system guarantees the athlete’s comfort and safety by automatically detaching him from the bicycle in case of fall. Conclusions The assistive device proved to be determinant for the athlete’s performance due the improvement of the comfort, ergonomics, and safety provided to the cyclist. Thus, qualifying him for the Tokyo 2021 Paralympic Games.

scholarly journals UPAYA DINAS SOSIAL TERHADAP ORANG-ORANG BERKEBUTUHAN KHUSUS (DISABILITAS) DI KABUPATEN MERAUKE

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Y Budiman ◽  
Farida Romaito Pohan ◽  
Aminah Aminah
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Assistive Devices ◽  
Government Budget ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Limited Government ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

The objectives and scope of this research are, among others, to find out how the efforts of the social services in carrying out their duties in dealing with people with special needs (disabilities) and to find out what supporting and inhibiting factors are in the process of implementing Regent Regulation number 52 of 2016 article 13 paragraph ( 2). The research method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The results of this study include: the rights of persons with disabilities are still not being considered such as education, housing worthiness, lack of social services, health including accessibility to disabled services. Based on the results of the research, it can be concluded that in an effort to empower persons with disabilities, the government, in this case the social service, has made several efforts, including: providing assistive devices, providing social assistance to each person with disabilities both inside and outside the institution, and the government providing opportunities for persons with disabilities to participate in banana chips making training in Malang as an effort to open their own business. Supporting factors in this study include family and community support and inhibiting factors, including the limited government budget to allocate funds for the provision and accessibility of disability aids.

The Impact of Covid 19 on Pregnant Women and Child Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1367-1373
Author(s):  
Nikhil Sanjay Mujbaile ◽  
Smita Damke
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Low Middle Income Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Separation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Child Health ◽  
General Wellbeing

The Covid illness (COVID-19) pandemic has spread rapidly all through the world and has had a drawn-out impact. The Pandemic has done incredible damage to society and made genuine mental injury to numerous individuals. Mental emergencies frequently cause youngsters to deliver sentiments of relinquishment, despondency, insufficiency, and fatigue and even raise the danger of self-destruction. Youngsters with psychological instabilities are particularly powerless during the isolate and colonial removing period. Convenient and proper assurances are expected to forestall the event of mental and social issues. The rising advanced applications and wellbeing administrations, for example, telehealth, web-based media, versatile wellbeing, and far off intuitive online instruction can connect the social separation and backing mental and conduct wellbeing for youngsters. Because of the mental advancement qualities of youngsters, this investigation additionally outlines intercessions on the mental effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Further difficulties in Low Middle-Income Countries incorporate the failure to actualize successful general wellbeing estimates, for example, social separating, hand cleanliness, definitive distinguishing proof of contaminated individuals with self-disconnection and widespread utilization of covers The aberrant impacts of the Pandemic on youngster wellbeing are of extensive concern, including expanding neediness levels, upset tutoring, absence of admittance to the class taking care of plans, decreased admittance to wellbeing offices and breaks in inoculation and other kid wellbeing programs. Kept tutoring is critical for kids in Low Middle-Income Countries. Arrangement of safe situations is mainly testing in packed asset obliged schools. 

(The Social Situation of the Disabled in the Russian Federation, Subject to the Provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Georgievna Ragozina ◽  
Dmitriy M. Rogozin ◽  
Sergey Anatol'evitch Vasin ◽  
Alexandra Burdyak ◽  
Alla Tyndik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Russian Federation

Using a saddle-assistive device equipped with mechanical orthosis for walking of the person with incomplete spinal cord injury

2021 ◽  
pp. 095441192110201
Author(s):  
Akbar Hojjati Najafabadi ◽  
Saeid Amini ◽  
Farzam Farahmand
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Reaction Force ◽  
Assistive Devices ◽  
Assistive Device ◽  
Walking Ability ◽  
Vertical Force ◽  
Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Combined Application ◽  
Cord Injury

The majority of the people with incomplete spinal cord injury lose their walking ability, due to the weakness of their muscle motors in providing torque. As a result, developing assistive devices to improve their conditionis of great importance. In this study, a combined application of the saddle-assistive device (S-AD) and mechanical medial linkage or thosis was evaluated to improve the walking ability in patients with spinal cord injury in the gait laboratory. This mobile assistive device is called the saddle-assistive device equipped with medial linkage or thosis (S-ADEM). In this device, a mechanical orthosis was used in a wheeled walker as previously done in the literature. Initially, for evaluation of the proposed assistive device, the experimental results related to the forces and torques exerted on the feet and upper limbs of a person with the incomplete Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) during walking usingthe standard walker were compared with an those obtained from using the S-ADEM on an able-bodied subject. It was found that using this combination of assistive devices decreases the vertical force and torque on the foot at the time of walking by 53% and 48%, respectively compared to a standard walker. Moreover, the hand-reaction force on the upper limb was negligible instanding and walking positions usingthe introduced device. The findings of this study revealed that the walking ability of the patients with incomplete SCI was improved using the proposed device, which is due to the bodyweight support and the motion technology used in it.

scholarly journals Dynamical system of the growth of COVID-19 with controller

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabha W. Ibrahim ◽  
Dania Altulea ◽  
Rafida M. Elobaid
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical System ◽  
Optimal Control ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Dynamic System ◽  
Unique Solution ◽  
Population Dynamic ◽  
Integral Control ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Separation ◽  
Strong Control

AbstractRecently, various studied were presented to describe the population dynamic of covid-19. In this effort, we aim to introduce a different vitalization of the growth by using a controller term. Our method is based on the concept of conformable calculus, which involves this term. We investigate a system of coupled differential equations, which contains the dynamics of the diffusion among infected and asymptomatic characters. Strong control is considered due to the social separation. The result is consequently associated with a macroscopic law for the population. This dynamic system is useful to recognize the behavior of the growth rate of the infection and to confirm if its control is correctly functioning. A unique solution is studied under self-mapping properties. The periodicity of the solution is examined by using integral control and the optimal control is discussed in the sequel.

scholarly journals Identical Limb Dynamics for Unilateral Impairments through Biomechanical Equivalence

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 705
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Rasouli ◽  
Kyle B. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Numerical Solution ◽  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Assistive Devices ◽  
Assistive Device ◽  
Human Walking ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Gait Rehabilitation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Two Sides

Dynamic models, such as double pendulums, can generate similar dynamics as human limbs. They are versatile tools for simulating and analyzing the human walking cycle and performance under various conditions. They include multiple links, hinges, and masses that represent physical parameters of a limb or an assistive device. This study develops a mathematical model of dissimilar double pendulums that mimics human walking with unilateral gait impairment and establishes identical dynamics between asymmetric limbs. It introduces new coefficients that create biomechanical equivalence between two sides of an asymmetric gait. The numerical solution demonstrates that dissimilar double pendulums can have symmetric kinematic and kinetic outcomes. Parallel solutions with different physical parameters but similar biomechanical coefficients enable interchangeable designs that could be incorporated into gait rehabilitation treatments or alternative prosthetic and ambulatory assistive devices.

scholarly journals An Electro-Oculogram Based Vision System for Grasp Assistive Devices—A Proof of Concept Study

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 4515
Author(s):  
Rinku Roy ◽  
Manjunatha Mahadevappa ◽  
Kianoush Nazarpour
Keyword(s):  
Vision System ◽  
Extraction Procedure ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Object Orientation ◽  
Assistive Devices ◽  
Assistive Device ◽  
Vision Systems ◽  
Signature Extraction ◽  
Voluntary Muscle ◽  
Als Patients

Humans typically fixate on objects before moving their arm to grasp the object. Patients with ALS disorder can also select the object with their intact eye movement, but are unable to move their limb due to the loss of voluntary muscle control. Though several research works have already achieved success in generating the correct grasp type from their brain measurement, we are still searching for fine controll over an object with a grasp assistive device (orthosis/exoskeleton/robotic arm). Object orientation and object width are two important parameters for controlling the wrist angle and the grasp aperture of the assistive device to replicate a human-like stable grasp. Vision systems are already evolved to measure the geometrical attributes of the object to control the grasp with a prosthetic hand. However, most of the existing vision systems are integrated with electromyography and require some amount of voluntary muscle movement to control the vision system. Due to that reason, those systems are not beneficial for the users with brain-controlled assistive devices. Here, we implemented a vision system which can be controlled through the human gaze. We measured the vertical and horizontal electrooculogram signals and controlled the pan and tilt of a cap-mounted webcam to keep the object of interest in focus and at the centre of the picture. A simple ‘signature’ extraction procedure was also utilized to reduce the algorithmic complexity and system storage capacity. The developed device has been tested with ten healthy participants. We approximated the object orientation and the size of the object and determined an appropriate wrist orientation angle and the grasp aperture size within 22 ms. The combined accuracy exceeded 75%. The integration of the proposed system with the brain-controlled grasp assistive device and increasing the number of grasps can offer more natural manoeuvring in grasp for ALS patients.

Application of Sit-To-Stand Assistive Device Based on Hip Support

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaiqiang Zhang ◽  
Qiang Xue ◽  
Shuo Yang ◽  
Tongtong Wang ◽  
Binwei Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Lower Limb ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Assistive Devices ◽  
Assistive Device ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Assist Devices ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Sit To Stand

Background: Completing the transition from a sitting position to a standing position is a basic skill in people’s daily lives and is crucial for independent living. Lower limb dysfunction will bring many inconveniences into a person’s life and greatly affect their quality of life. Patients with lower limb dysfunction are a specialized group, and nursing problems for this group are becoming increasingly serious. Helping patients with lower limb dysfunction restore their lower limb mobility or assisting them to walk is a social problem necessary to be solved. Objective: : To review the recent sit-to-stand assistive devices based on hip support, classify them systematically and introduce their characteristics, including the mechanisms and the types of patients for which such mechanisms are applicable; to help patients with lower limb dysfunction or doctors (therapists) understand and choose a reasonable sit-to-stand assist device based on hip support. Methods: This paper summarizes literatures and patents about sit-to-stand assistive devices. From the aspects of structural characteristics, drive type and support modes based on the hip and applications situation, the advantages and disadvantages of the typical sit-to-stand assist devices are represented. Results: Current and future development trends on the structural characteristics, drive type and support modes based on the hip and applications situation of sit-to-stand assist devices are discussed to improve the humanization, modularization and applicability of sit-to-stand assist devices. Conclusion: Sit-to-stand assistive devices based on hip support can help patients improve the quality of their life, assist patients carrying out rehabilitation training, and delay the decline of lower limb function. However, the existing sit-to-stand assistive devices based on hip support need further improvement in the aspects of motion mechanism, new technology application and ergonomics design.

Organization of inclusive physical education classes for persons with disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (06) ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
Zülfiyyə Asim qızı Yolçiyeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Social

As we know, there are many fields of pedagogical science. One of the most important areas is special pedagogy. Special pedagogy studies the issues of education and upbringing of children with physical and mental disabilities. People with disabilities are those who are relatively disabled in terms of any part of the body or the brain. In our country, special attention is paid to the education of people with disabilities. Inclusive education creates conditions for the protection of social equality, education and other special needs of children with disabilities. According to the teaching methodology, inclusive education prevents discrimination against children, allows people with various diseases to get a perfect education and succeed. Its main task is to create an environment for vocational training of people with disabilities. In modern times, people with disabilities should not be seen as sick, but as people with disabilities. This shapes the social approach to disability. The social model allows these children to exercise their rights to develop their skills. The purpose of inclusive physical education is to teach students to move together, which promotes the improvement and development of human psychophysical abilities. Different exercises should be chosen for each lesson and combined in such a way as to have a comprehensive effect on the body and ensure that each student can perform. It is necessary to ensure the general requirements and their specificity when arranging lessons. Sports have a great impact on the development of the personality of children with disabilities as normal children. Sport is one of the most important conditions for everyone and is acceptable for any age group. All these procedures are more effective when performed in unison. Let's protect our child's life together for a healthy life and step into a healthy future Key words: Inclusion, inclusive education, inclusive physical education, a person with disabilities, special education

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