康复辅具对于提高残障人的生活质量、减轻家庭和社会负担具有重要意义。近年来,我国的康复辅具研究已经有了比较大的进步,而且从政策支持、科研资助、产业环境等不同角度看,目前都正处于最好的发展时机。生物力学在康复辅具的设计中具有重要作用,一方面,对身体障碍的生物力学特征的测量和评价是康复辅具设计的重要依据;另一方面,人体与辅具交互作用的生物力学问题,是康复辅具设计必须考虑的重要因素。作为本期专栏的导言文章,本文将简要综述我国康复辅具研究的现状,然后介绍康复辅具设计中的一些生物力学研究。
Rehabilitation technical aids have great significance in improving life quality of people with disability and reducing burdens of care for family and society. Nowadays, the policy, research funding and industrial envi- ronment in China all provide a good chance for rehabilitation technical aids research, which has already made great progress. Biomechanics plays an important role in design of rehabilitation technical aids. On the one hand, biomechanics can provide important references for measurement and evaluation on biomechanical characteristics of physical disabilities, so the design of rehabilitation technical aids can meet the requirements of maintaining or improving biomechanical functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities. On the other hand, the biomechani- cal interaction between human body and rehabilitation technical aids should also be considered carefully during the optimization of design. As an introduction to this special issue on rehabilitation, this paper will briefly review the progress of rehabilitation technical aids research in recent years in China, and then introduce some biomechanical researches in development of rehabilitation technical aids.