Development of a Wearable Live-feedback System to Support Partial Weight-bearing While Recovering From Lower Extremity Injuries

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• 作者：A. Tkachenko Bril^a ; ^{tkachenk@technikum-wien.at" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; V. David^a ; M. Scherer^a ; H. Jagos^b ; P. Kafka^a ; A. Sabo^a
• 关键词：Rehabilitation ; lower extremities ; live feedback ; partial weight-bearing ; eSHOE
• 刊名：Procedia Engineering
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：147
• 期：Complete
• 页码：157-162
• 全文大小：370 K

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Lower-body physical rehabilitation therapies and technologies are inevitably linked to the sports world. Partial weight-bearing is a common measure that accelerates the healing process following lower-body surgeries or fractures. In order to improve the compliance with this method, a smartphone application was developed. It provides the user with an audible and haptic biofeedback alarm when a predefined threshold is reached by the pressure sensors’ data of a pair of instrumented insoles. The preliminary results show that the alarm functionality works in accordance with the stipulations. The biofeedback also appears to have a positive effect on the amount of steps under the target weight.