The Mixo-suit Home Rehabilitation System

The Mixo-suit home rehabilitation system is a lower-body exoskeleton rehabilitation system for children with cerebral palsy, focusing on knee and ankle-foot rehabilitation training. It plays the role of 'remote therapist' for the families of children with cerebral palsy who cannot access a therapist.

The system consists of two parts: a wearable soft exoskeleton combined with an easy-to-use rehabilitation app, allowing untrained parents to follow the app’s instructions to help their children perform rehabilitation exercises and check the training progress more easily, accurately, and efficiently.

The Mixo-suit Video Introduction

Introduction video - Designed by Zilan Chen, May 2021

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Ph.D Research in Keio University

Published a paper titled “Towards Applying Pneumatic Gel Muscles to Augment Plantar Flexor Muscle Stretching for Children with Cerebral Palsy,” as the first and co-author, in March 2022 in the ACM Digital Library.

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