PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a foot-part balance evaluation device, and a training unit and a training method that are useful for health maintenance and care including balancing ability of a subject and fall prevention by evaluating foot-part balance correcting ability and performing training with subjects of all the ages from young people to aged people as a target.SOLUTION: There are provided a foot-part balance evaluation device and a training unit including: a measurement part 1 which acquires pressure variations from a hallucal part, a thenar part, a hypothenar part, and a heel part a signal amplification part 8 which amplifies a signal obtained from the pressure variation measurement part a comparative evaluation part 12 which analyzes the result of the amplification, saves the result of analysis, compares evaluation determined from the result among the subjects and with others to select a training method suitable to an object person according to the result a database part 11 and a display part 13 which displays the result and the training method derived from accumulated results. Health maintenance and care including foot-part balance correction and fall prevention are achieved by the foot-part balance evaluation device and training unit.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】若年者から,高齢者まですべての年代の被検者を対象とし,足部バランス修正能力を評価し,訓練することで,被検者のバランス能力,及び転倒予防を含めた健康維持,管理に役立つことが出来るものとする。【解決手段】計測器の上に両足,または片足で立った被検者の母趾部,母趾球部,小趾球部,及び踵部からの圧変動を捉える計測部1と,圧変動計測部から得られる信号を増幅する信号増幅部8と,増幅される結果を解析し,解析された結果を保存し,結果から判断された評価を,被検者個人間や他人とで比較し,結果から被検者に適した訓練方法を選択する比較評価部12,データベース部11と,その結果や,蓄積した結果から導き出される訓練方法を表示するディスプレー表示部13の構成とすることで,足部バランス評価装置及び訓練器を提供する。本装置並びに訓練器により,足部バランス修正,及びに転倒予防を含めた健康維持,管理を実現する。【選択図】図1
