The consultancy will design and manufacture an exercise bike for victims of blast injuries whose rehabilitation is restricted by external fixator cages.
External fixators are used to set complex bone fractures, but the structures often restrict the patient’s ability to access existing equipment and exercise effectively.
Frazer-Nash will initially undertake a feasibility study to determine the training requirements of patients in rehabilitation. The data gained will then allow Frazer-Nash to engineer a training bike that can be adjusted to suit the patient’s requirements.
The bike will be designed to give the patients an increased range of different movements. Crucially, patients and clinicians will be able to adjust the resistance settings of the bikes to ensure the optimum conditions are set for the rehabilitation process.
‘External fixators can be very disruptive to the patient-rehabilitation process and our work will help make sure that their impact is limited as much as possible,’ said Alex Knight, Frazer-Nash engineering consultant. ‘We will be using our extensive design experience to create a bike that will help to enhance the vital training regime of patients undergoing rehabilitation.’
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