Designing Ecological Auditory Feedback on Lower Limb Kinematics for Hemiparetic Gait Training.

ABSTRACT: Auditory feedback has earlier been explored as a tool to enhance patient awareness of gait kinematics during rehabilitation. In this study, we devised and tested a novel set of concurrent feedback paradigms on swing phase kinematics in hemiparetic gait training. We adopted a user-centered design approach, where kinematic data recorded from 15 hemiparetic patients was used to design three feedback algorithms (wading sounds, abstract, musical) based on filtered gyroscopic data from four inexpensive wireless inertial units. The algorithms were tested (hands-on) by a focus group of five physiotherapists. They recommended that the abstract and musical algorithms be discarded due to sound quality and informational ambiguity. After modifying the wading algorithm (as per their feedback), we conduc

SUBMITTER: Kantan PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10145885 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature