Deans' stroke musings: Wearable Gait Measurement System with an Instrumented Cane for Exoskeleton Control

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Wearable Gait Measurement System with an Instrumented Cane for Exoskeleton Control

If your rehab department hasn't implemented any objective motion detection system, then they are completely incompetent. This is only 6 years old. A PT I had once told me to 'walk this way'. Totally fucking useless, no analysis of exactly what muscles needed to be worked on and the exercise that would correct those problems. If your stroke department head doesn't understand this concept then they need to be replaced. And should have been way back in 2012. OR YOU CAN KEEP YOUR INCOMPETENT HOSPITAL AND HAVE THEM FAIL YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.

Maybe start by looking at these:

motion analysis (5 posts to April 2013)

motion capture (8 posts to March 2013)

motion capture software (1 post to July 2017)

motion capture system (3 posts to June 2013)

Motion Pattern Tracking (1 post to January 2016)

motion sensors (12 posts to August 2012)

motion tracking (2 posts to December 2015)

motion-capture sensors (1 post to May 2017)

Wearable Gait Measurement System with an Instrumented Cane for Exoskeleton Control

Modar Hassan 1,*,

Hideki Kadone 2,

Kenji Suzuki 1,2,3
and

Yoshiyuki Sanka 1,2
1 Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba,Tsukuba 305-8577, Japan; E-Mails: kenji@ieee.org (K.S.); sankai@golem.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp (Y.S.)
2 Center for Cybernics Research, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Japan;E-Mail: kadone@ccr.tsukuba.ac.jp
3 Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: modar@ai.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp;Tel.: +81-29-853-5679; Fax: +81-29-853-5761.
Received: 15 November 2013; in revised form: 31 December 2013 / Accepted: 31 December 2013 / Published: 17 January 2014
Abstract:
In this research we introduce a wearable sensory system for motion intention estimation and control of exoskeleton robot. The system comprises wearable inertial motion sensors and shoe-embedded force sensors. The system utilizes an instrumented cane as apart of the interface between the user and the robot. The cane reﬂects the motion of upper limbs, and is used in terms of human inter-limb synergies. The developed control system provides assisted motion in coherence with the motion of other unassisted limbs. The system utilizes the instrumented cane together with body worn sensors, and provides assistance for start, stop and continuous walking. We veriﬁed the function of the proposed method and the developed wearable system through gait trials on treadmill and on ground. The achievement contributes to ﬁnding an intuitive and feasible interface between human and robot through wearable gait sensors for practical use of assistive technology. It also contributes to the technology for cognitively assisted locomotion, which helps the locomotion of physically challenged people.