Paper
Design of An Infrared Physiotherapy Monitor
- Authors:
- Rowa Hassan; Fatehia B. Garma; Esraa Salman; Esraa Farah; Alnazier Hamza
- Abstract
- The aim of this project is to design an infrared (IR) monitor to detect and measure the amount of infrared radiation, to control the treatment time of the IR physiotherapy, and to provide a tool to determine standard doses for different cases. The problem was the absence of the quality control tools of the infrared physiotherapy devices in Sudan that led to inappropriate treatment, complains and decrease in patient satisfaction. The patient safety is human-dependent; it can lead to severe burns when the patient exposes to IR radiation more than the required treatment time. The proposed solution for this issue is a design of a monitor of IR physiotherapy, which was done by using both software (BASCOM) and hardware (microcontroller atmega 8) tools, a control system which enables and controls the input power that inters the IR lamp is implemented, and an IR sensor which provide feedback from the IR lamp to monitor the amount of IR radiation. The result of the project was an IR physiotherapy monitor, which has the ability to monitor 80 percent of the lamp’s chosen intensities and control the infrared radiation intensity, dose, and time to ensure the patient safety.
- Keywords
- Heat physiotherapy; Infrared Physiotherapy; Monitors
- StartPage
- 24
- EndPage
- 28
- Doi
- 10.18005/PTHP0201004