Posture classification via wearable strain sensors for neurological rehabilitation

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2006:2006:6273-6. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260620.

Abstract

Stroke and other neurological accidents account for a wide fraction of the healthcare costs in industrialised societies. The last step in the chain of recovery from a neurological event often includes motor rehabilitation. While current motion-sensing technologies are inadequate for automated monitoring of rehabilitation exercises at home, conductive elastomers are a novel strain-sensing technology which can be embedded unobtrusively into a garment's fabric. A sensorized garment was realized to simultaneously measure the strains at multiple points of a shirt covering the thorax and upper limb. Supervised learning techniques were employed to analyse the strain measures in order to reconstruct upper-limb posture and provide real-time feedback on exercise progress.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Clothing
  • Computer Simulation
  • Equipment Design
  • Exercise
  • Humans
  • Models, Statistical
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / instrumentation*
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / methods
  • Nervous System Diseases / rehabilitation*
  • Posture*
  • Programming Languages
  • Software
  • Textiles
  • Thorax / pathology