Unobtrusive sensing for gait rehabilitation assessment
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چکیده
The physiotherapy exercises for gait rehabilitation are performed by the patient under physiotherapist assistance. During successive physiotherapy sessions the patient motor capabilities is evaluated by the physiotherapist without the usage of instruments and a set of reports are fill manually in order to store the rehabilitation progress based on observed facts. To perform an objective evaluation of patient progress during the physiotherapy sessions the work presents a set of sensing devices that are wearable such as smart inertial measurement unit (IMU) or are embedded in walking aids such as microwave Doppler RADAR array. The data delivered by the smart sensing units designed for gait rehabilitation purpose are wireless transmitted to an advanced processing server that provides synthetic information to the physiotherapist that use a mobile device to access the available services. Elements of IMU sensor network design and implementation as about smart walker and the experimental results for patient characterized by different gait limitation are included in the paper.
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