Wearable textile platform for assessing stroke patient treatment in daily life conditions
Monitoring physical activities during post-stroke rehabilitation in daily life may help physicians to optimize and tailor the training program for patients. The European research project INTERACTION (FP7-ICT-2011-7-287351) evaluated motor capabilities in stroke patients during the recovery treatmen...
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| author | Federico eLorussi Nicola eCarbonaro Danilo Emilio De Rossi Rita eParadiso Peter H Veltink Alessandro eTognetti |
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| description | Monitoring physical activities during post-stroke rehabilitation in daily life may help physicians to optimize and tailor the training program for patients. The European research project INTERACTION (FP7-ICT-2011-7-287351) evaluated motor capabilities in stroke patients during the recovery treatment period. We developed wearable sensing platform based on the sensor fusion among inertial, knitted piezoresistive sensors and textile EMG electrodes . The device was conceived in modular form and consists of a separate shirt, trousers, glove and shoe. Thanks to the novel fusion approach it has been possible to develop a model for the shoulder taking into account the scapulo-thoracic joint of the scapular girdle, considerably improving the estimation of the hand position in reaching activities. In order to minimize the sensor set used to monitor gait, a single inertial sensor fused with a textile goniometer proved to reconstruct the orientation of all the body segments of the leg. Finally, the sensing glove, endowed with three textile goniometers and three force sensors showed good capabilities in the reconstruction of grasping activities and evaluating the interaction of the hand with the environment, according to the project specifications. This paper reports on the design and the technical evaluation of the performance of the sensing platform, tested on healthy subjects. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1b5e997d4f934ed69da388a39f742a7a2022-12-22T01:15:12ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology2296-41852016-03-01410.3389/fbioe.2016.00028172596Wearable textile platform for assessing stroke patient treatment in daily life conditionsFederico eLorussi0Nicola eCarbonaro1Danilo Emilio De Rossi2Rita eParadiso3Peter H Veltink4Alessandro eTognetti5University of Pisa - Research Center E.Piaggio - Information Engineering DepartmentUniversity of Pisa - Research Center E.Piaggio - Information Engineering DepartmentUniversity of Pisa - Research Center E.Piaggio - Information Engineering DepartmentSmartexUniversity of TwenteUniversity of Pisa - Research Center E.Piaggio - Information Engineering DepartmentMonitoring physical activities during post-stroke rehabilitation in daily life may help physicians to optimize and tailor the training program for patients. The European research project INTERACTION (FP7-ICT-2011-7-287351) evaluated motor capabilities in stroke patients during the recovery treatment period. We developed wearable sensing platform based on the sensor fusion among inertial, knitted piezoresistive sensors and textile EMG electrodes . The device was conceived in modular form and consists of a separate shirt, trousers, glove and shoe. Thanks to the novel fusion approach it has been possible to develop a model for the shoulder taking into account the scapulo-thoracic joint of the scapular girdle, considerably improving the estimation of the hand position in reaching activities. In order to minimize the sensor set used to monitor gait, a single inertial sensor fused with a textile goniometer proved to reconstruct the orientation of all the body segments of the leg. Finally, the sensing glove, endowed with three textile goniometers and three force sensors showed good capabilities in the reconstruction of grasping activities and evaluating the interaction of the hand with the environment, according to the project specifications. This paper reports on the design and the technical evaluation of the performance of the sensing platform, tested on healthy subjects.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fbioe.2016.00028/fullGaitstroke rehabilitationreachingDATA FUSIONgraspingambulatory monitoring |
| spellingShingle | Federico eLorussi Nicola eCarbonaro Danilo Emilio De Rossi Rita eParadiso Peter H Veltink Alessandro eTognetti Wearable textile platform for assessing stroke patient treatment in daily life conditions Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology Gait stroke rehabilitation reaching DATA FUSION grasping ambulatory monitoring |
| title | Wearable textile platform for assessing stroke patient treatment in daily life conditions |
| title_full | Wearable textile platform for assessing stroke patient treatment in daily life conditions |
| title_fullStr | Wearable textile platform for assessing stroke patient treatment in daily life conditions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wearable textile platform for assessing stroke patient treatment in daily life conditions |
| title_short | Wearable textile platform for assessing stroke patient treatment in daily life conditions |
| title_sort | wearable textile platform for assessing stroke patient treatment in daily life conditions |
| topic | Gait stroke rehabilitation reaching DATA FUSION grasping ambulatory monitoring |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fbioe.2016.00028/full |
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