Development of a Wearable Live-feedback System to Support Partial Weight-bearing While Recovering From Lower Extremity Injuries. (2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bril, A. Tkachenko; David, V.; Scherer, M.; Jagos, H.; Kafka, P.; Sabo, A.
• Is Part Of: Procedia engineering. Volume 147(2016)
• Page Start: 157
• Page End: 162
• Publication Date: 2016
• Subjects: Rehabilitation -- lower extremities -- live feedback -- partial weight-bearing -- eSHOE,; Engineering -- Congresses; Engineering -- Periodicals; Engineering; Conference proceedings; Periodicals; 620.005
• DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.206
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1877-7058

Abstract

Abstract: 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.