Paper Title
Patient’s Acceptance on Walking Assist Machine using Hands-Free Crutches

Abstract
Standard crutches is difficult to operate and commonly used to assist ambulation among people that are suffering an injury to either one of their feet, knees, ankles, or legs.This paper describes a hand-free crutches study as a walking aid machine which allows hands-free ambulation for greater freedom while walking and reduce the excessive energy used. The purpose of this study was to obtain patient acceptability on using hands-free crutches with respect to safety, durability, usability, rehabilitation process and market potential for the device. Innovation in this crutches is used an electrical circuit which is a step counter to count how many step the patient have walk. A randomized controlled trial was conducted on 20 subjects to share their experiences with the invention of a hand-free crutch and to discuss the potential of the device to use widely in the rehabilitation progress. In relations, the functions of the patient acceptability were obtained by quantitative analysis, which taken using statistical analysis. The questionnaires that distributed among subjects consist of 20 questions which related to their experiences after using hands-free crutches. The crutches were safer to be used and well accepted in durability of the product, comfortable and possibility to be commercialized. Similarly, hands-free crutches contribute to rehabilitation progress. Keywords - Step Counter and Rehabilitation