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Severe scoliosis affects adolescent cardiopulmonary development. Brace treatment is currently a commonly used method for conservative treatment of scoliosis, but the principle of correcting scoliosis by squeezing ribs of the chest cavity causes compression of the chest cavity when worn. This paper introduces the design of a controllable soft drive to assist in the correction of scoliosis. The soft drive can pull when the spine is in a lateral curve to correct the spinal curvature without indirectly exerting pressure on the chest. The spine has multiple degrees of freedom. In order to meet this challenge, a new soft structure has been designed to achieve segmented multi-degree-of-freedom pulling motion, it is more in line with the movement of the body, while correcting scoliosis, the controllable soft drive will not affect the normal spine movement. The model was simulated and analyzed, and the displacement and force were further compared. The results show that this is a feasible spinal correction scheme.
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The study was supported by Key projects of national key research and development plan (2017YFF0207400): Research on key technologies and important standards of health services and remote health monitoring for the elderly and the disabled.
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Chen, L., Li, Y., Han, L., Yuan, L., Sun, Y., Tang, X. (2020). Design and Simulation of Controllable Soft Drive for Exoskeleton Robot. In: Elderly Health Services and Remote Health Monitoring. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7154-1_4
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