DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A CORE STRENGTHENING EXERCISE AND REHABILITATION MACHINE FOR ELDERLY
Keywords:
Core Strengthening, Exercise Machine, Rehabilitation Machine, Partial Weight-Assisted Mechanism, ElderlyAbstract
For elderly people, being healthy is factor that allows them to live their daily lives normally. Reinforcing the strength of core muscles is extremely important. However, there are several limitations of currently available exercise machines. Firstly, the currently exercise machines are not suitable for improving elderly people’s core muscles due to posting certain threats to elderly people. Secondly, exercise machines are not easily accessible and quite expensive. Therefore, the researchers design and develop the exercise machine specifically for improving elderly people’ core muscles. The machine is equipped with the weight-assisted system that assists the user’s body weight during the exercise with the 6-adjustable levels of assistance, from 2.5-15 kg. The weight-assisted system allows elderly people to exercise much easier and for a longer period of time and reduces potential injury and the force of impact. The designed machine has the initial angle of movement at 110 to 140 degrees. The researchers use correlation coefficients to analyze validity and reliability of the machine’s weight-assisted system in order to make sure that the weight-assisted system will assist users with the required weight and that the assistance will be reliable and consistent during individual use. The results reveal that the machine’s validity is P = 0.000 (r = 0.998) and the reliability is P = 0.000 (r = 1.000) which present the statistical significance. Therefore, this machine is considered a suitable option for elder people to use in their exercise or physical therapy to improve the strength of their core muscles.
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