Acupuncture manipulation high-accuracy digital simulation system

Abstract

The invention provides an acupuncture manipulation high-accuracy digital simulation system. The acupuncture manipulation high-accuracy digital simulation system comprises an upper computer, a motion control unit, multiple mechanical devices and multiple experiment objects which are communicated. The motion control unit is of a double-closed-loop control structure composed of a motion control card, a servo driver, servo motors, an encoder and an acupuncture manipulation needle, the motion condition of the acupuncture manipulation needle is fed back in real time through digital signal output of the encoder, and the acupuncture manipulation stimulation signals can be accurately quantified. Each mechanical device drives the acupuncture manipulation needle through two servo motors to realize vertical movement and rotation in the horizontal direction, and the lifting and inserting operation and twirling operation in the traditional acupuncture manipulation are simulated. The motion program is written according to the standard acupuncture manipulation data of acupuncture professionals, and the multiple mechanical devices simulate the manual acupuncture manipulation motion process for the multiple experiment objects. The acupuncture manipulation high-accuracy digital simulation system has the advantages that the acupuncture manipulation stimulation signals are accurately quantified in a closed-loop control mode, the advantages of two types of existing instruments are effectively integrated, multiple experiments can be carried out simultaneously, and the acupuncture manipulation high-accuracy digital simulation system has great value for acupuncture manipulation experiments and research.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to biomedical engineering technology, in particular to a high-precision digital simulation system for acupuncture manipulation. Background technique [0002] As an important part of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and moxibustion have remarkable clinical effects, but the exact mechanism of action is still unclear. Acupuncture can be equivalent to external time-varying stimuli to the body, and the nervous system encodes the acupuncture stimuli to generate action potentials, thereby regulating the body to adapt to environmental changes. In the experimental process of studying the neural coding mechanism of acupuncture stimulation, as the input signal of the nervous system, acupuncture stimulation plays an important role in establishing an effective input-output relationship. However, acupuncture stimulation is applied to the skin in the form of manual acupuncture, which is difficult to characterize from a quantitative per...

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Problems solved by technology

This measuring instrument can quantify various characteristic parameters of each acupuncture manipulation well. However, due to the strong flexibility of acupuncture manipulation, even when the same person performs acupuncture, it cannot Guarantee the consistency of the stimulation signals in the two experiments. Therefore, this measuring instrument can only collect the acupuncture stimulation parameters in one experimental operation but cannot reproduce them, that is, repeated experiments under the same stimulation cannot be performed.

And the person who performs the acupuncture operation is specific, and the same person cannot conduct experimental research on the same stimulation on multiple groups of experimental subjects at the same time.

In addition, this kind of measuring instrument relies on the operation of professional acupuncturists, which is costly, and it is difficult to conduct long-term and flexible experimental research, so it is not universal

[0006] In acupuncture experimental research, electronic acupuncture instruments are used to simulate electrical signals equivalent to acupuncture mechanical stimulation, and the parameters are easy to quantify, but they lack the mechanical characteristics of acupuncture manipulations; Acupuncture manipulation measuring instruments are used to collect characteristic parameters, which rely too much on manual acupuncture operation, lack of objectivity

Therefore, none of the existing instruments can be well used to build an acupuncture experiment detection platform with the function of quantifying acupuncture stimulation signals

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