Title :
Co-creative rehabilitation: Effect of rhythmic auditory stimulus on gait cycle fluctuation in Parkinson´s disease patients
Author :
Uchitomi, Hirotaka ; Miyake, Yoshihiro ; Orimo, Satoshi ; Suzuki, Kazuki ; Hove, Michael J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Intell. & Syst. Sci., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of interactive and non-interactive rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) on gait cycle fluctuation in Parkinson´s disease (PD) patients. WalkMate and fixed-tempo RAS were used as interactive and non-interactive RASs that the participants walked with. In the results, 1/f structure of the fluctuation was restored and carry-over effect was shown by interactive RAS, compared to non-interactive RAS. The experiment demonstrated that interaction is important in the (re)emergence of 1/f structure in human behavior and that interactive RAS is a promising therapeutic tool for improving gait of PD patients.
Keywords :
auditory evoked potentials; diseases; gait analysis; medical signal processing; neurophysiology; patient rehabilitation; 1/f structure; PD patients; Parkinson´s disease patients; WalkMate; carry-over effect; cocreative rehabilitation; fixed-tempo RAS; gait cycle fluctuation; human behavior; noninteractive RAS; noninteractive rhythmic auditory stimulation; rhythmic auditory stimulus; therapeutic tool; Equations; Fluctuations; Fractals; Legged locomotion; Rhythm; Timing; 1/f structure; Entrainment; Gait; Interaction; Parkinson´s Disease; Rhythm; Stride interval time; WalkMate;
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2011 Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0714-8
