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    Home-based ankle rehabilitation system: Literature review and evaluation
    ( 2017-09-01) ; ;
    Marwan Affandi
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    Yeap Ewe Juan
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    Mohamad Yazid Din
    Ankle sprain Injury is one of the most common ankle injuries due to domestic or sporting accidents. There is a need for greater demand for quick and effective ankle rehabilitation system (ARS). Nowadays, research on ARS has gained a great attention than manual clinical method in medical areas such as orthopedic injuries, pediatrics sport medicine and industrial services. It can improve the treatment conditions by reducing the dependency of doctors’ supervision, help patient with less movable to have home-based rehab exercise and help to speeds up recovery. There are currently available ARS that can provide effective ankle rehabilitation treatment such as Visual, Non-Visual and Robot-aided. In this paper, the critical review of ARS is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of ARS in terms of provided setting criteria. The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of each ARS is discussed and compared to identify the most suitable home application of ARS for ankle sprain patient. From the comparison, the most suitable home application ARS is the visual marker-less based ARS system which give user-friendly, efficiency, validity in performance and cheaper cost.
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    Parametric design optimization of an ankle rehabilitation robot using SolidWorks
    This paper presents the approach to determine most suitable dimensions and volume of the proposed ankle rehabilitation robot design. This design aim is the robot needs to be portable without compromising the workspace of the proposed robot and it must fulfill all required basic ankle motions. To do this, optimisation was used to generate possible initial dimensions in order to achieve suitable length for the outer frame through minimization of the dimensions. Based on the selected variables and constraints, the result of the optimization shows minimization of the proposed design has been achieved through reduction of the dimension of the outer frame of the robot in which translate the reduction of the weight of the robot.