Paper Info
Title
Development of a network system combined with ambulatory and non-conscious physiological measurements for supporting challenged kids - a new proposal of a gait monitoring system for use in rehabilitation.
Abstract
Various physiological measurement techniques have been developed to support healthcare and daily living of adult including elderly. However, in light of the rapid growth of the declining birth rate, promotion in care and life support for children are not enough. Especially in rehabilitation for disabled children, i.e., challenged kids, it is important for therapist to evaluate the efficacy of rehabilitation and the health condition. Share of these information with educational, welfare, and government institutions are also needed for accurate life support. Therefore, the quantitative data of the activities and daily health status are helpful. From these viewpoints, we are developing a new network system for monitoring the activities and the health status of children using ambulatory and non-conscious physiological measurements as well as data browse at anytime and anywhere. Firstly, we propose a wearable gait monitoring system to support evaluation for the efficacy of rehabilitation. In this study, the present system can successfully detect the characteristics of postural changes in children with disorder of movement, demonstrating its usefulness and availability to the evaluation for the effect of the brace attached to the subject's lower limb.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/EMBC.2013.6611017
EMBC
Keywords
DocType
Volume
health care,child postural change characteristics detection,health condition,quantitative data,paediatrics,medical disorders,challenged kid support,nonconscious physiological measurement,wearable gait monitoring system,child movement disorder,patient monitoring,ambulatory physiological measurement,child lower limb brace effect,data browsing,child care,daily living support,child daily health status monitoring,body sensor networks,healthcare support,patient rehabilitation,gait analysis,rehabilitation efficacy evaluation,child life support,welfare institution,educational institution,government institution,child activity monitoring,disabled children rehabilitation,information sharing,patient diagnosis,network system development,pediatrics,foot
Conference
2013
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1557-170X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kosuke Motoi100.68
Takanobu Oyama200.34
Naoto Tanaka301.01
Tadahiko Yuji401.01
Yuji Higashi502.03
Koichi Sagawa620.73
Toshiro Fujimoto701.01
Ken-ichi Yamakoshi84312.49