Gait Evaluation on Parkinson’s Disease Patients Using Spontaneous Stimulus Induced by UPS-PD

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease that affects motor and non-motor symptoms. Postural instability and freezing of gait (FOG) are considered motor symptoms of PD resulting in falling. In this study, we investigated the effect of simultaneous use of a robotic walker and a pneumatic walking assist device (PWAD) for PD patients on gait features. The pneumatic actuated artificial muscle on the leg and actuators on the walker produce mutual induced stimulation, allowing the user to suppress FOG and maintain a stable gait pattern while walking. The performance of the proposed system was evaluated by conducting an 8 [m] straightline walking task by a healthy subject with (a) RW (robotic walker), (b) simultaneous use of an RW and a PWAD, and some gait features for each condition were analyzed. The increasing stride length and decreasing stance phase duration in the gait cycle suggest that simultaneous use of a robotic walker and a pneumatic walking assist device would effectively decrease FOG and maintain a stable gait pattern for PD patients.

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“…The developed system is an improved form of UPS-PD [13] with the robotic walker. To make the prototype, a simple rollator walker was modified.…”

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A Study on Simultaneous Use of a Robotic Walker and a Pneumatic Walking Assist Device Designed for PD Patients

Ali

Kawamoto

Shibata

2021

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A Study on Simultaneous Use of a Robotic Walker and a Pneumatic Walking Assist Device Designed for PD Patients

Ali

Kawamoto

Shibata

2021

2021 18th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)

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Das

Wolf

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference

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Gait Evaluation on Parkinson’s Disease Patients Using Spontaneous Stimulus Induced by UPS-PD

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A Study on Simultaneous Use of a Robotic Walker and a Pneumatic Walking Assist Device Designed for PD Patients

A Study on Simultaneous Use of a Robotic Walker and a Pneumatic Walking Assist Device Designed for PD Patients

A Study on Simultaneous Use of a Robotic Walker and a Pneumatic Walking Assist Device Designed for PD Patients

Accelerating Skill Acquisition of Two-Handed Drumming using Pneumatic Artificial Muscles

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