Investigation of the Treadport for gait rehabilitation of spinal cord injury

Author

Hejrati, Babak ; Hull, D. ; Black, J. ; Abbott, Jake J. ; Hollerbach, J.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012

Firstpage

4553

Lastpage

4558

Abstract

The goal of this study is to compare the effect of training by the University of Utah´s Treadport versus a conventional treadmill on gait improvement of spinal-cord-injury (SCI) patients. Four incomplete SCI subjects who had reached a rehabilitation plateau were selected to have training first on the treadmill and then the Treadport. Spatiotemporal and gait parameters were utilized to make a comparison between the two training conditions. Overall, the results demonstrated statically significant improvements in most of the spatiotemporal as well as some of the gait parameters during training with the Treadport relative to the traditional treadmill.

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical equipment; injuries; motion measurement; patient rehabilitation; Treadport; gait improvement; gait parameters; gait rehabilitation; incomplete SCI patients; rehabilitation plateau; spatiotemporal parameters; spinal cord injury; Hip; Joints; Kinematics; Knee; Legged locomotion; Spatiotemporal phenomena; Training; Adolescent; Aged; Algorithms; Biofeedback, Psychology; Exercise Test; Exercise Therapy; Female; Gait Disorders, Neurologic; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Spinal Cord Injuries; Therapy, Computer-Assisted; Treatment Outcome; User-Computer Interface; Young Adult;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4119-8

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346980

Filename

6346980