Preliminary Study for Gait Phases Detection to Develop a Rehabilitation Equipment for Hemiplegic Patients

Author

Nam, T.W. ; Cho, J.M. ; Kim, S.I. ; Kim, S.H. ; Lim, J.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Inje Univ., Kimhae

fYear

2005

fDate

6/27/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2425

Lastpage

2428

Abstract

Preliminary experiment for analyzing weight shift during gait phases for hemiplegic patients was carried out to develop rehabilitation equipment. A gait phase detection system using pressure sensors was developed and the experiment was carried out for eight hemiplegic patients and normal adult. The weight shift during gait phases for a normal adult showed symmetrical for left and right footing phase, but that for the hemiplegic patients showed asymmetrical footing phase. However, it gave sufficient information to discriminate between left and right footing phases

Keywords

biomedical equipment; gait analysis; patient rehabilitation; pressure sensors; footing phase; gait phases detection; hemiplegic patients; pressure sensors; rehabilitation equipment; weight shift; Biomedical engineering; Biosensors; Bridge circuits; Capacitive sensors; Control systems; Gravity; Legged locomotion; Lesions; Phase detection; Sensor systems; Gait phases detection; Gait rehabilitation equipment; Hemiplegic patient;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616958

Filename

1616958