Walkway system for measuring and training in gait

  • Hirokawa, Sunji (Department of Descriptive Geometry & Drawing, College of General Education, Kyushu University) ;
  • Matsumura, Kouji (Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Wakamatsu Hospital)
  • Published : 1987.10.01

Abstract

We developed a biofeedback gait training system; a 12 m measuring walkway with a training walker which moves at prescribed velocity. The walkway measures a.11 temporal and distance factors of gait. This system provides visual feedback for distance factors and auditory one for temporal at the prescribed walking velocity. Experiments were performed on normal and degenerative knee joint subjects, and this system was verified to be very useful.

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