Mesa lúdica para reabilitação de crianças com lesão obstétrica do plexo braquial

Abstract

This paper describes the implementation, construction and validation of a device for developing the physiotherapy treatment of obstetric brachial plexus palsy. The project is the set of a table of exercises, called motor development table and execution control software and workout history, patient registration, cadastre and history goniometric measures. The motor development table, constructed in wood, comprising by 8 printed circuit boards, called segments, each one comprised of arrays of LEDs and infrared sensors, allows the physiotherapist performing custom exercises for each patient, where the base of operation are the user hand touch in a triggered segment, measured using optical sensors. When the user touch the triggered segment indicated by the motor development table, green lights are turned on with a musical note. When touched a segment that was not indicated by the table, a red light indicates an error on the proposed exercise. The exercises performed are mediated through an embedded system that sends data to the control software and runtime errors made during the exercise. The software, on the other hand, allows the physiotherapist to track the progress of the sessions from each one of his patients through detailed graphs constructed based on the data of exercises performed on the table and motor development in goniometric measures, registered manually by the professional in each session. Observing the proposed objectives for this work, it can be stated that the project achieved good results. By analyzing the tests applied to the solution in order to verify behavior patterns relative to environment illumination, response time and even the public opinion, it was observed that the motor development table proved to be an easy solution, integration, and offering to the professional control over exercises, their results and progress of the patient.