Authors: Mahesh Tyagi, Anjana Khare
Abstract: Physiotherapy is a health care tool for the well-being of human. Muscle Stimulator is equipment used in physiotherapy treatment that directs small pulses of current to the muscle to restore the muscle activity. Programmable muscle stimulator is developed to overcome with muscle problems. Patient is subjected to small currents using the electrodes that are attached to the affected area or at the pressure point. Different types of current are used for various disorders like plain galvanic, pulsed galvanic, faradic, surged faradic, triangular etc. In proposed system different types of current are programmed with the help of PIC controller. Patient is subjected to the current with the help of surface electrode. Specific type of current is selected for particular disorder. The intensity of the current can be varied using the potentiometer according to the type of disorder. Output parameters of current are displayed on LCD. The system is interfaced with GUI to select the program and to insert the treatment time.
Keywords: Muscle Stimulator, PIC controller, galvanic current, faradic current, triangular current, surged faradic, GUI
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