Predicting Functional Independence Measure Scores During Rehabilitation With Wearable Inertial Sensors

Application of Wearable Inertial Sensors in Ecological Rehabilitation Environments

Rehabilitation after injury or stroke is a long process towards regaining functionality, mobility, and independence. Changes exhibited in these areas tend to be subtle and are highly dependent on the patient and their injury. To provide a fine-grained assessment of patient progress, we undertook a study to quantitatively capture movements during inpatient rehabilitation. We utilized wearable in...

Wearable Inertial Sensors and Their Applications

2.1 Principles of Inertial Sensors A coordinate system must be defined prior to deployment of an inertial sensor for body motion measurement. If the origin of a moving coordinate system has acceleration (A0) and rotates with a gyroscopic angular velocity (ω), and if a mass (m) has the position vector (r0) and the velocity (u0) with respect to the moving coordinate system, then the inertial forc...

Wearable inertial sensors for arm motion tracking in home-based rehabilitation

We in this paper introduce a real-time human arm movement tracking system that can be used to aid the rehabilitation of stroke patients. A 3-axis inertial sensor is used to capture arm movements in 3-D space and in real time. The tracking algorithm is based on a kinematical model that just considers the human forearms at this stage. To improve accuracy and consistency, a Lagrangian based filter...

Functional independence measure.

Functional independence measure scores of patients with hemiplegia followed up at home and in university hospitals

[Purpose] Our purpose was to create awareness among of social rehabilitation at the university and in local governments, to identify gaps in social rehabilitation, and to increase the effectiveness of social rehabilitation. [Subjects and Methods] This study included stroke patients undergoing physical rehabilitation from the stroke outpatient clinic (43 patients) and the Istanbul Metropolitan M...