Design of exercise and measuring system for proprioceptive sensory enhancement

Balance responsible for maintaining body posture or being able to act against forces from the external environment; holding, stopping, moving the object, changing direction, etc. controls kinematic and kinetic movements. Information on the processing of the brain in the center of balance from the proprioceptive, vestibular, and visual systems. It manifests in joints, muscles and tendons and is the specialized cells to perceive the position of the limbs. These pages that evaluate the pressure and forces on the joint and muscle send the information to the brain. The proprioceptive system gets the brain to understand what kind of surface it is sitting on and what position it is located on. There are exercise and treatment programs used to improve the mobility of people with neurological or physical diseases or professional athletes who need high level balance and mobility. Today, human computer interaction (HMI) tools have begun to be used in the field of physical therapy and rehabilitation as well as sports. This is a measurement and exercise system that can measure the efficiency of the proprioceptive senses and monitor the progress and progress of these senses with some games. At the same time, with the vibration level that can come, the movement senses process by positioning by increasing the activity of the muscle spindle mechanoreceptors, which are part of the proprioceptive sensory system. The implemented system consists of three parts: mechanical, software and hardware. When the person's balance deviation is measured, the acceleration sensor (ADXL345) and the force sensor (Zemic L6E) are operated and the data is transferred to the microcontroller with the I2C communication protocol. It is processed in the microcontroller and delivered to the bluetooth wireless communication delivery PC software. The data transferred to the software is used in the interface program, in test applications and in the exercise system, using others to direct objects in games. In this way, a game-based measurement and exercise system was created for balancing. The improved resolution was given information and the deviation angles in the lateral and frontal axes were measured. At the beginning of the program, it was observed that it oscillated ± 1o in the lateral axis and ± 1o in the frontal axis in the 30 s test. The swing angles of the lateral and frontal axes were measured again in the exercise program prepared. During the exercise, it was observed that it was ± 0.03o in the lateral axis and ± 0.2o in the frontal axis. This method probably shows that it is more effective in its development than conventional methods.