Gait analysis is very significant for early diagnosis of gait diseases and treatment assessment. Gait analysis is used to assess, plan and to treat the individuals with conditions affecting their ability to walk. In recent years, doctors gain more clarity and exact disease assessment by means of machine learning technologies and this has gained much application of gait analysis. The patients su...

Currently, the assessment of autonomy and functional ability involves clinical rating scales. However, scales are often limited in their ability to provide objective and sensitive information. By contrast, information and communication technologies may overcome these limitations by capturing more fully functional as well as cognitive disturbances associated with Alzheimer disease (AD). We inves...

Background Gait speed represents a functional predictor and an impairment severity index in stroke survivors; gait analysis parameters are descriptors of walking strategies used to compensate for the muscle such as vaulting, circumduction hip hiking. The aim this study was assess if there is relationship between compensatory strategy progression. Methods A sample 30 patients with post-stroke he...

Variability raises considerable interest as a promising and sensitive marker of dysfunction in physiology, in particular in neurosciences. Both internally (e.g., pathology) and/or externally (e.g., environment) generated perturbations and the neuro-mechanical responses to them contribute to the fluctuating dynamics of locomotion. Defective internal gait control in Parkinson's disease (PD), resu...

objectives: ankle foot orthoses (afos) are widely utilized to improve walking ability in hemiplegic patients. the present study aimed to evaluate the effect of rocker bar ankle foot orthosis (rafo) on functional mobility in post-stroke hemiplegic patients. methods: fifteen hemiplegic patients (men and women) who were at least 6-months poststroke and able to walk without an assistive device for ...

BACKGROUND In stroke patients, it is difficult to manually assist dorsi-flexion during the normal gait cycle as it is a distal component. Furthermore, it is nearly impossible to simultaneously guard the patient and manually assist dorsi-flexion during the swing phase of gait. However, one of the key benefits of Thera-Band® Elastic Resistance-Assisted Gait Training is that it offers distal contr...

Introduction: Efficient gait control using Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) is an open research problem. In this research, a new intermittent controller has been designed to control the human shank movement dynamics during gait. Methods: In this approach, first, the three-dimensional phase space was constructed using the human shank movement data recorded from the healthy subjects. Then...

doi.org/10.11336/jjcrs.8.71 Jpn J Compr Rehabil Sci Vol 8, 2017 ABSTRACT Hirano S, Kagaya H, Saitoh E, Sonoda S, Tanabe S, Katoh M, Yamada J, Tanino G, Suzuki A, Itoh N. Effectiveness of Gait Exercise Assist Robot (GEAR) for stroke patients with hemiplegia. Jpn J Compr Rehabil Sci 2017; 8: 71-76. Objective: This study examined whether subacute stroke patients with hemiplegia who receive gait tr...

PURPOSE To trace the socio-functional and clinical profiles of elders with moderate levels of movement functionality as determined by the Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA Ia), and to compare the groups having high and moderate levels of functionality regarding the frequency of falls and identifiable risk factors. METHODS The research involved 49 elders (with an average age of 71...