AIIMS Delhi developing special exoskeleton to help paralysed patients walk

AIIMS Delhi and DRDO are collaborating on a project to develop a special exoskeleton for soldiers who have been injured in service and have lost their ability to walk or become paralysed This exoskeleton will enable the injured soldiers to walk againProfessor Bhavuk Garg department of Orthopaedics AIIMS said We have the best gait lab in India and right now in the first phase we are looking and collecting data about muscle activation patterns in people while walking Once we have this data we will feed it into a wearable robot kind of thing called an exoskeleton which will enable paralytic people to walkProfessor Ravi Mittal Head of Orthopaedic Department in AIIMS said In our Gait Lab we record the movements of knees legs etc For this we record them by placing many sensors and cameras on the body After which all this data is collected and fed into the computer and then it is analysed After this every parameter is checked It is studied We find out how the person walks how his legs rotate what the speed is and how much the gap is All these things are being worked on very minutelyDr Mittal said that they study in detail a persons walk What is the movement of the rest of his body What is the effect on his shoulders and head Every single thing is recorded in detail and from this we find out how much difference there is between the gait of a person who is completely healthy and the gait of a person who is ill Gait Lab is a study done on all these things through which we can find out the data he saidThe Gait Lab study was not in India earlier and this study has been conducted at AIIMS Delhi for about five yearsThe doctor said that in a disease like osteoarthritis the joints wear out After this the part of the body where there is a problem requires replacement such as knee replacement etc However through the gait lab study we find out how his gait has changed and what his statistics are A gait lab study is performed to determine the quantity What changes took place in the entire body What were the parameters Its numbers are known In this series such an exoskeleton is being prepared through this study So that it will help those people who are unable to stand or have problems walking those patients will be able to walk properly stand and do their other work by wearing the exoskeletonThe head of the Orthopaedic Department of AIIMS Delhi said that the exoskeleton will be a kind of structure fashioned out of plastic and metalProfessor Bhavuk Garg Department of Orthopaedics AIIMS said that through the Gait Lab they are currently studying how a common man who is completely healthy walks What movements his body makes and how his muscles are activated That data is being collected through this lab and after collecting the data we will try to replicate it through an exoskeleton ie a small robot to see how it can work like a common manDr Garg said that the patient will be able to walk wearing the exoskeleton That is a person suffering from paralysis or any serious disease is not able to move his hands and legs is not able to walk or is not able to do his daily tasks easily So he will be able to do all his work while wearing it We are working closely with IIT Delhi in this regard and we are being given funding for this by DRDODr Bhavuk Garg said presently they are on the first page regarding this study and data is being collected It is expected that this technology will be completely ready in twothree years Which will be very beneficial for patients facing problems like paralysis or movement in the bodyInputs from ANI and PTIThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever