Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Centre for Transportation System

ASSISTIVE DEVICE FOR AMBULANT DISABILITY

Anurag kujur
14554004
Naveen Kulkarni 14554008
Ritwick Bhardwaj 14554011
Shashank Shekhar 14554012
M-tech 1st Year, Centre for Transportation System, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Overview..
Disability and its types.
Statistical Data about Disability
Ambulant Disability
Types of Ambulant Devices its features.
Manufacturers around India.

Defining Disability
A disability is any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or
within the range considered normal for a human being.
-World health Organization COPENHAGEN 1982

Disability serves as an umbrella term for impairments, activity limitations or participation restrictions.
-International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), WHO

Anyone with a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on their ability to
carry out normal day to day activities.
-The Equality Act 2010
lack of ability of a person to perform any activity, A kind of impairment or damage which restrict to perform certain
activity or task . It may be Physical or Mental.

Types of Disability
According to Persons With Disabilities Act, 1995
Blindness

Cerebral Palsy

Hearing impairment

Leprosy cured person

Total absence of
sight
Visual acuity not
exceeding 6/60
or 20/200
Limitation of the
field of vision
subtending an
angle of 20
degrees

Abnormal motor
control posture
resulting from
brain.

Means loss of sixty

decibels or more

loss of sensation in
hands or feet
loss of sensation
and paresis in the
eye and eyelid but
with no manifest
deformity
Canes or
Walking sticks
Folding Walker
Four wheeler
rolling walker

Locomotors
Means disability of
the bones, joints or
muscles.
restriction of the
movement of the
limbs

Ambulant

NonAmbulant

Wheelchair
User

Statistical Data
2003
Disable People

35%

Rural
65%

Urban

There was a survey

done by National
Sample Survey
Organization in 2003,
according to that The
number of disabled
persons in rural and
urban India was
49,300 and 26,679,

Locomotors in Urban area

Locomotors in Rural India

paralysis

paralysis
10%

0%

deformity of limb

25%

14%
22%

loss of limb
46%

8%

deformity of limb

16%

loss of limb

9%
50%

dysfunction of
joints of limb

dysfunction of joints
of limb

others (deformity
of body)

others (deformity of
body)

The number of disabled persons in the country was estimated to be 18.49 million during July to December, 2002. They
formed about 1.8 per cent of the total population (census 2001).
Source: National Sample Survey Organization
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Government of India, December 2003

Statistical Data
2011

Person with Disability

Person

31%
In Seeing

8%
18%

19%

In Hearing

69%

Urban

In Speech
19%

6%
3%

Rural

20%

7%

In Movement
Mental Retardation
Mental Illness
Any Other
Multiple Disability

Person in Rural area

Person in Urban Area

44%

44%
56%

Male
Female

56%

Male
Female

Source: http://www.punarbhava.in/

Ambulant Disability
The Latin term "ambulare means "to walk". It means a passenger who can walk, not wheelchair-bound or
stretchered
Speaking about the people with ambulant locomotors disability, they consist of people who have
functional limbs but require assistive devices for proper movement.
It is rather difficult for them to move without the assistive devices.
It is an impairment rather than a disability, and we all might have faced such impairment at certain age
in certain time of our lives.
Many elderly people, the temporarily disabled, and those with an amputated leg or foot are included in
this group.
The ambulant disabled may have problems to stop because they may have difficulties at bending their
knees.
They may easily lose stability and fall if they want to reach things that are too low,

Types of Assistive Devices

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1

Device
cost
Canes or Walking Stick
- Base width offset
shaft canes (Fig 1.a)
- Easy care canes (Fig Rs 450-700
1.b)
- Folding canes(Fig
1.c)
$ 10 - $30
- Forearm canes(Fig
1.d)
- Quad feet canes(Fig
1.e)
- Adjustable canes
etc

features
advantages
- A person with
-Mainly people
45 to 65 can
with balance
use it
issues can use
- It is made up of
it
aluminium tubing -People
which makes it
recovering
weightless
from injury ,
-Adjustable
especially
according to the
who want to
user
balance can
-Foldable
use it
-Weighs 200-250
pounds
-It is comfortable,
non slip

disadvantages
When it falls on
the floor , it would
be difficult for the
user to pick it up

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Device
Folding walker also
called as Handicaped
walker

cost
Rs 2500-3500

features
-It is Foldable
-Lightweight

advantages
disadvantages
-Mobility
independent, walk
safely

$ 50 - $30
3.

(Refer Fig. 2)
Four Wheeler Rolling
Walker.
(Refer Fig. 3)

Base width offset

Folding Canes
shaft canes

Rs 3500-10000 -Larger wheels

makes the
mobility
$ 90 - $200
easier
- Provides sitting
comfort when
breaks needed

Easy care canes

-Relatively Cheaper
-Easily foldable
-persons with
recovery,rehabliati
on can useit.

Folding Canes

-Regular
maintenance is
required
-Maintenance
cost is relatively
high

Forearm canes

Manufacturers from various part of India for

Physically Impaired

Bhai Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, New Delhi 100 001

Dhingra Surgicals, New Delhi 110 058
Images and Scripts, Delhi 110 033
India Medico Instruments, Delhi 110 001
MP Industrial Corporation, Indore 452 003
Navchetan Orthopedic Appliances, Gujarat 36005
New Generation Ortho-Prosthetic, New Delhi 110 029
National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research (under the Ministry if Social Justice and Empowerment,
Government of India), Orissa 754 010
Narwal Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Aids, Rohtak 124 001
Narwal Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Aids, Haryana
Surgical Electronics, NOIDA 201 301
Surgico-Furn (India) Ltd, Ghaziabad
SAGE (Everest engineers), Delhi 110 041
Silipos, Mumbai 400 064
Technical Automotives, Kanpur 208 001
The Spastics Society of India: National Job Development Center , Mumbai 400 071

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