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Application of wearable gait-assist technology in the fields of rehabilitation and elderly care

  • TAO Shuai ,
  • Lü Zeping ,
  • XIE Haiqun
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  • 1. Dalian Key Laboratory of Smart Medical and Health, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China;
    2. China Rehabilitation Hospital, National Research Center for Rehabilitation Technical Aids;Beijing Key Laboratory of Rehabilitation Technical Aids for Old-Age Disability;Key Laboratory of Human Motion Analysis and Rehabilitation Technology of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Beijing 100176, China;
    3. Department of Neurology, Foshan Hospital Affiliated to Sun Yat-sen University, Foshan 528000, China

Received date: 2019-01-10

  Revised date: 2019-07-25

  Online published: 2019-11-30

Abstract

The gait is one part of an individual's specific biological information, in the fields of medical health, athletic performance and biometrics. The wearable gait detecting system is a comprehensive system integrating hardware, software, data processing analysis and gait algorithm, and is easy to operate and to acquire the gait information of the subject in real-time and with high precision. It can be effectively used in the evaluation of the rehabilitation, the abnormal gait monitoring and the early warning of the elderly in line with the needs of the rehabilitation and pension field in the context of our aging society. With the accumulation of the gait data and the establishment of disease prediction models in different disease cohort studies, the gait detection and evaluation will find more important applications with broad application prospects in the field of the rehabilitation and the elderly care service.

Cite this article

TAO Shuai , Lü Zeping , XIE Haiqun . Application of wearable gait-assist technology in the fields of rehabilitation and elderly care[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2019 , 37(22) : 19 -25 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2019.22.003

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