Comprehensive gait analysis in spinal cord injured patients with functional electrical stimulation

Author

Medri, E. ; Tepavac, D. ; Needham, B. ; Popovic, D.

Author_Institution

Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Miami Univ., FL, USA

fYear

1994

Firstpage

448

Abstract

A gait analysis system comprising of hardware and software were used to better quantify pathological gait patterns in spinal cord injured patients using functional electrical stimulation (FES). The hardware allows 5, 10, 15, or 20 minutes continues recordings of 8 channel joint angles, 6 channel ground floor reactions, and 2 channel axial crutch force simultaneously. The data is downloaded to a host computer which is then processed via a command program in DADiSP software. Average knee and hip angles (ext./abd), % body weight on feet and crutches, stance and swing times, and stride velocity are presented as informational hard copies along with storing as a file, which can be reassessed for continued analysis via the normal DADiSP software

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biomechanics; biomedical measurement; medical diagnostic computing; muscle; neurophysiology; patient treatment; 5 to 20 min; DADiSP software; axial crutch force; command program; comprehensive gait analysis; functional electrical stimulation; gait analysis system; ground floor reactions; hip angle; informational hard copies; joint angle; knee angle; pathological gait patterns quantification; spinal cord injured patients; stance time; stride velocity; swing time; Foot; Force measurement; Hardware; Hip; Information analysis; Kinematics; Knee; Neuromuscular stimulation; Pathology; Pattern analysis; Position measurement; Spinal cord;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1994. Engineering Advances: New Opportunities for Biomedical Engineers. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2050-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1994.411960

Filename

411960