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Holland, Simon; Wright, Rachel; Wing, Alan; Crevoisier, Thomas; Hodl, Oliver and Canelli, Maxime
(2015). A pilot study using tactile cueing for gait rehabilitation following stroke.
In: Fardoun, Habib; Penichet, Victor and Alghazzawi, Daniyal eds.
Technology Applied to Patient Rehabilitation.
Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS).
London: Springer Verlag, pp. 226–239.
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Abstract
Recovery of
walking function is a vital goal of post-stroke rehabilitation. Cueing
using audio metronomes has been shown to improve gait, but can be
impractical when interacting with others, particularly outdoors where
awareness of vehicles and bicycles is essential. Audio is also
unsuitable in environments with high background noise, or for those with
a hearing impairment. If successful, lightweight portable tactile
cueing has the potential to take the benefits of cueing out of the
laboratory and into everyday life. The Haptic Bracelets are lightweight
wireless devices containing a computer, accelerometers and low-latency
vibrotactiles with a wide dynamic range. In this paper we review gait
rehabilitation problems and existing solutions, and present an early
pilot in which the Haptic Bracelets were applied to post-stroke gait
rehabilitation. Tactile cueing during walking was well received in the
pilot, and analysis of motion capture data showed immediate improvements
in gait.
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