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Infant between the ages of 12-24 months.

Product for home use by parents and adult family members.

Product to by let out by Enable Ireland and Mid-Western Health Board etc.

Product to improve balance, posture and walking pattern.

One in one thousand childern have Spina Bifida in Ireland

May of these childern never walk.

One in six hundred babies have Down Syndrome in Ireland.

One in eight hundred babies have Cerebal Palsy with motor problems.

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:

A DEVICE TO HELP DISABLED INFANTS WALK IN AN EARLIER STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT, the product will be aimed for home use. The family will go to a professional physiotherapist to see if this product could be used to help the infant. The main stakeholder groups will be in-fanrs who suffer from Spina Bifida, Down Syndrome and Cerebal Palsy.

Vacuum Formed sidesfor Modular Design

Clean white belt for easy clean and healthysurface for infants.

Support for harnessfor infant safety

Shell nice simpleshape easy to clean.

Overhanging Support

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Series of rollerson walkingsurface.

Hard solid shellwith smooth edges.

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Ball bed promotes easymovement and also theinfant can walk in reverse.

Whole track bed madeof ball bearings in housings.

Soft paddingaround shell.

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Balls that will bevisable on track.

Ball bearing locationbed.

Spring.

Product present sensor.

Balls held in housing.Balls are spaced outon bed to provide movingsurface for infants to walk on.

Infant can wear shoes.Ball bearings can be small and held closetogether.

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Safety tubing tohang harness from.

Circle frame design.

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Pivot chair on the product tohelp infants parents/familymembers to see to infantsfoot steps.

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Suppport framealso for harness.

Projector forCause & Effect.

Track projects imageto help with Gaitpattern.

Support frame.

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The cause and effectplaying helps with theinfants development.

Infants feet createripples on the watersurface.

Fish swim awayto hide for ripple.

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The infants footact like the switchto play to music.

Sensor mate to helpwith balance & posturesensor feedback.

Patterns are onewhole gait stepapart from eachother.

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A projection screen that foldsout from the treadmill that can be projected on or a pattern beltcan be attached.

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Solid hard plateunder softcushion pad.

All pads are held withinproductswall/shell.

Track surface canbe changed fromhard to soft.

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Moving platformof the slow movingtreadmill.

No harness but still theinfant is fully supported.

infant can bejust placed inover or understrap could beused.

Infants center ofgravity in centerof product & supportbeam.

Support beam couldbe used to supportinfant. Elastic enclose.

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Supporting infantswithout using harness.

Support beams givea little bounce but are still strong andvery saft.

Structure beams to support the supportbeams where theinfant would be placed.

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