Research Article
A Gait Rehabilitation pilot study using tactile cueing following Hemiparetic Stroke
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255357, author={Simon Holland and Rachel Wright and Alan Wing and Thomas Crevoisier and Oliver Hodl and Maxime Canelli}, title={A Gait Rehabilitation pilot study using tactile cueing following Hemiparetic Stroke}, proceedings={REHAB 2014}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={REHAB}, year={2014}, month={7}, keywords={haptic bracelets stroke gait rehabilitation tactile metronome haptic metronome parkinson’s fall prevention walking hemiparetic}, doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255357} }- Simon Holland
Rachel Wright
Alan Wing
Thomas Crevoisier
Oliver Hodl
Maxime Canelli
Year: 2014
A Gait Rehabilitation pilot study using tactile cueing following Hemiparetic Stroke
REHAB
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255357
Abstract
Recovery of walking function is a major goal of post-stroke rehabilitation. Audio metronomic cueing has been shown to improve gait, but can be impractical and inconvenient to use in a community setting, for example outdoors where awareness of traffic is needed, as well as being unsuitable in environments with high background noise, or for those with a hearing impairment. Silent lightweight portable tactile cueing, if similarly successful, has the potential to take the benefits out of the lab and into everyday life. The Haptic Bracelets, designed and built at the Open University originally for musical purposes, are self-contained lightweight wireless devices containing a computer, Wi-Fi chip, accelerometers and low-latency vibrotactiles with a wide dynamic range. In this paper we outline gait rehabilitation problems and existing solutions, and present an early pilot in which the Haptic Bracelets were applied to post-stroke gait rehabilitation.