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US 2021/0059564 A2Published application
System and Methods for Gait and Running Functional Improvement and Performance Training
AssigneeUniversity of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
InventorsKrista Lee Kutina, Goeran Fiedler
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Abstract
A gait analysis and training system is provided, as well as methods of training, e.g., retraining gait in a patient. The system provides real-time external feedback to a patient is portable so that use is not limited to a clinic.
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A gait analysis, training, and retraining system comprising:
- a sensor configured to measure one or more attributes of gait of a patient;
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- a controller in communication with a sensory output device, the controller configured to, repeatedly, monitor a patient's gait in real-time and to provide real-time feedback to the patient:
- receive and process information from the sensor representative of one or more attributes of the gait of the patient;
- generate a data set corresponding to the information from the sensor representative of one or more attributes of the gait of the patient;
- compare the generated data set to reference data indicating optimal values for a data set corresponding to the information from the sensor representative of one or more attributes of the gait of a patient;
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- cause the display to provide feedback comprising gait analysis based, at least in part, on the comparison between the generated data set and the reference data and at least indicating in the feedback if the generated data set is within defined tolerances relative to the reference data,
- wherein the controller and the sensory output device optionally communicate wirelessly.
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A method of analyzing and/or training gait in a patient, the method comprising, using a computer-implemented process, repeatedly:
- receiving and processing, in a computer, information from a sensor on the patient configured to measure one or more attributes of gait of a patient representative of one or more attributes of the gait of the patient during one or more physical actions relating to gait, performed by the patient;
- generating, in the computer, a data set corresponding to the information from the sensor representative of one or more attributes of the gait of the patient;
- comparing, in the computer, the generated data set to reference data indicating optimal values for a data set corresponding to the information from the sensor representative of one or more attributes of the gait of a patient;
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- generating, with the computer, an output causing a sensory output device to provide feedback comprising gait analysis based, at least in part, on the comparison between the generated data set and the reference data and at least indicating in the feedback if the generated data set is within defined tolerances relative to the reference data,
- wherein the controller and the display optionally communicate wirelessly.
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