How is your therapist objectively measuring your gait irregularities? If no measurements are being done, How the hell can any intervention be said to cause improvement?
Maybe one of these other ones;
Sensoria™ Fitness Socks March 2014
Sensor embedded socks January 2014
Markerless Human Motion Capture for Gait Analysis October 2017
Ambulatory assessment of walking balance after stroke using instrumented shoes
May 2016
The Parkinson's shoe
Design of a biofeedback device for gait rehabilitation in post-stroke patients
October 2015
Insole plantar pressure systems in the gait analysis of post-stroke rehabilitation
October 2015
The latest one here:
Validity of shoe-type inertial measurement units for Parkinson’s disease patients during treadmill walking
- Myeounggon Lee,
- Changhong YoumEmail authorView ORCID ID profile,
- Jeanhong Jeon,
- Sang-Myung Cheon and
- Hwayoung Park
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation201815:38
© The Author(s). 2018
Received: 9 June 2017
Accepted: 7 May 2018
Published: 15 May 2018
Abstract
Background
When examining participants with pathologies, a shoe-type inertial measurement unit (IMU) system with sensors mounted on both the left and right outsoles may be more useful for analysis and provide better stability for the sensor positions than previous methods using a single IMU sensor or attached to the lower back and a foot. However, there have been few validity analyses of shoe-type IMU systems versus reference systems for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) walking continuously with a steady-state gait in a single direction. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to assess the validity of the shoe-type IMU system versus a 3D motion capture system for patients with PD during 1 min of continuous walking on a treadmill.
Methods
Seventeen participants with PD successfully walked on a treadmill for 1 min. The shoe-type IMU system and a motion capture system comprising nine infrared cameras were used to collect the treadmill walking data with participants moving at their own preferred speeds. All participants took anti-parkinsonian medication at least 3 h before the treadmill walk. An intraclass correlation coefficient analysis and the associated 95% confidence intervals were used to evaluate the validity of the resultant linear acceleration and spatiotemporal parameters for the IMU and motion capture systems.
Results
The resultant linear accelerations, cadence, left step length, right step length, left step time, and right step time showed excellent agreement between the shoe-type IMU and motion capture systems.
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