REBOUND - active in-bed rehabilitation
Academic project at nus - division of industrial design (2014)
Grand Winner (Gold Prize) of the LiteON Design Innovation Award 2015
Rebound aims to prevent muscle wasting in hospitalized patients by integrating in-bed exercises into the early stages of rehabilitation; utilizing a period of inactivity for productive exercise to facilitate early mobilization. It utilizes the elastic potential energy of elastic bands to facilitate repetition of motion in exercises, thus providing support for patients with muscle weakness. Furthermore, by increasing the physical activity of hospitalized patients.
Leveraging on the structure of the hospital bed frame, Rebound is a low cost, extremely portable and easy to use exercise unit.
The Rebound Rehab Unit comprises of two elements, a Resistance Tube and a Support Band,
The Rebound Modules are attached to the bed frames using a Pipe Clamp Mechanism.
An in-built digital counter paired with a mobile application records patients’ rehabilitation progress, providing a target-oriented exercise regime to engage and motivate patients, while also streamlining the manual logging process of patients’ records for physiotherapists.
In-built counter records the rehab progress of patients.
A mobile application aids physiotherapists in tracking the progress of multiple patients at a go.
Team: Nigel Geh, Sim Hao Jie & Audrey Chua