A Gait Analysis Laboratory for Motion Rehabilitation of Patients with Musculosk...

• Author(s): Daniela Sofia S. Sousa ; João Manuel R. S. Tavares ; Miguel Velhote Correia ; Jorge G. Barbosa ; Carolina Vila Chã ; Emília Mendes
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/315
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Ciências tecnológicas; Engenharia; Engenharia biomédica
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: Portuguese

Description

This paper describes the technology (software & hardware) used in the Gait Analysis Labora-tory of CRPG – Centro de Reabilitação Profissional de Gaia. This laboratory is mainly intended to support CRPG with quantitative data for clinical rehabilitation of patients with musculoskeletal pathologies, namely in the lower limbs. Usually, for the gait analysis is considered data obtained from several acquisition sensors, such as: image cameras, electromyographic devices, pressure devices and force plates. This paper also pre-sents briefly how quantitative motion analysis can be used for a clinical point of view and it presents the in-fluence of image algorithms in gait rehabilitation.