Augmenting forearm crutches with wireless sensors for lower limb rehabilitation

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Merrett, Geoff V ^a   Ettabib, Mohamed A ^a   Peters, Christian ^b   Hallett, Georgina ^a   White, Neil M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assistive healthcare; Biofeedback; Biomedical engineering; Forearm crutches; Instrumented objects; Patient monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIOFEEDBACK; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION; PATIENT MONITORING; RECOVERY; SENSOR NODES;

ASSISTIVE; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; HOME ENVIRONMENT; INSTRUMENTED OBJECTS; LONG TERM MONITORING; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

EID: 78649862826     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/21/12/124008     Document Type: Article

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