Can an electro-tactile vestibular substitution system improve balance in patients with unilateral vestibular loss under altered somatosensory conditions from the foot and ankle?

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1323-1326

  Vuillerme, N ^a   Hlavackova, P ^b   Franco, C ^c   Diot, B ^b   Demongeot, J ^b   Payan, Y ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c IDS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRE OF FOOT PRESSURE; ELECTROTACTILE STIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORCE PLATFORM; NORMAL CONDITION; PILOT STUDIES; SENSORY CONDITIONS; SOMATOSENSORY; STABILIZING EFFECTS; SUBSTITUTION SYSTEMS; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

BIOFEEDBACK;

ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FOOT; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; STIMULATION; TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ANKLE; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOOT; HUMANS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84055200161     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090311     Document Type: Conference Paper

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