Computer aided rehabilitation engineering (CARE) system with a walking model

This paper describes a computer simulation model of human walking that seeks to improve the practicability of the simulation method for application to rehabilitation. The musculo-skeletal system was represented by a three-dimensional, 14-rigid-link model and 60 muscle models. Muscular forces were controlled by a neuronal system model consisting of 16 pairs of the neural oscillators. This simulation model was applied to investigate biomechanical relationship between walking stability and body dynamics properties. Such simulation methods will provide us with a novel computational assessment tool of human movement that we call computer aided rehabilitation engineering (CARE) system.