Study Of The Intelligent System For Cervical Spinal Rehabilitation

Cervical spondylosis is a degenerative disease，Mainly because of cervical discdegeneration and prominent lead to surrounding tissue and structure changes caused aseries of clinical symptoms.It is widespread and has a serious impact on people’s lives.Treatment for cervical spondylosis is cervical vertebral traction and cervical spinalmobilization and can Produce good results. However, the disease has high incidence andeasy to relapse after treatment.And the treatment is also very expensive and need a longtime for rehabilitation.It lead that patients did not receive universal treatment andpreventive care. There are reports that it’s very necessary to develop such equipmentwhich are suitable for family. The aim of this paper is to develop a reliable device whichcould be used both in Hospital and family.The device combine cervical spinalmobilization and cervical vertebral traction.We developed a Measurement System of Cervical Stiffness to objectively quantifymanual mobilization.The Measurement System could be used in a clinical setting andrecord four different levels force-displacement curves of cervical spinal mobilizationautomatically. The measurement objectively quantifies the force characteristic parametersof four different levels. The ranges of amplitude and frequency are listed out and a methodis given for fitting applied force curves of four different levels by manual therapists. Thisinformation forms the basis for future research, teaching and clinical practice that couldimprove manual therapy skills.We also design an intelligent system for cervical spinal rehabilitation to replacemanual therapists. It is the force-position hybrid control system and successfully simulatthe cervical spinal mobilization in a clinical settings.