Wearable Movement Sensors for Rehabilitation: A Focused Review of Technological and Clinical Advances
Recent technologic advancements have enabled the creation of portable, low-cost, and unobtrusive sensors with tremendous potential to alter the clinical practice of rehabilitation. The application of wearable sensors to track movement has emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance the care provided to patients with neurologic or musculoskeletal conditions. These sensors enable quantification of motor behavior across disparate patient populations and emerging research shows their potential for identifying motor biomarkers, differentiating between restitution and compensation motor recovery mechanisms, remote monitoring, telerehabilitation, and robotics.
Source: PM and R - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Franchino Porciuncula, Anna Virginia Roto, Deepak Kumar, Irene Davis, Serge Roy, Conor J. Walsh, Louis N. Awad Tags: Innovations Influencing Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Source Type: research