Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
853374 Procedia Engineering 2016 6 Pages PDF
Abstract
Lower-body physical rehabilitation therapies and technologies are inevitably linked to the sports world. Partial weight-bearing is a common measure that accelerates the healing process following lower-body surgeries or fractures. In order to improve the compliance with this method, a smartphone application was developed. It provides the user with an audible and haptic biofeedback alarm when a predefined threshold is reached by the pressure sensors' data of a pair of instrumented insoles. The preliminary results show that the alarm functionality works in accordance with the stipulations. The biofeedback also appears to have a positive effect on the amount of steps under the target weight.
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