Energetic assessment of trunk postural modifications induced by a wearable audio-biofeedback system

Giansanti, Daniele; Dozza, Marco; Chiari, Lorenzo; Maccioni, Giovanni; Cappello, Angelo

doi:10.1016/j.medengphy.2008.04.004

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“…The most common type of feedback employed is vibro-tactile feedback applied at the head or at the waist [1][2][3][5][6][7] with a preference for that at the head possibly because of the shorter neural pathways involved. Auditory feedback has also been employed [4,8], but tends to impair communication with the patient. Recently, bone-conducting auditory feedback has been used to supplement vibro-tactile BF at the head as a multi-modal feedback with different sway thresholds for each mode [1].…”

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Improving impaired balance function: Real-time versus carry-over effects of prosthetic feedback

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Carpenter

Horslen

et al. 2011

2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

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This study investigated whether training with realtime prosthetic biofeedback (BF) of trunk sway induces a carry-over improvement in balance control once BF is removed. 12 healthy older adults and 7 uncompensated unilateral vestibular loss patients were tested. All participants performed a battery of 14 balance and gait tasks (pre-test) upon their initial lab visit during which trunk angular sway was measured at L1-3. They then received balance BF training on a subset of 7 tasks, three times per week, for two consecutive weeks. BF was provided using a multi-modal biofeedback system with graded vibrotactile, auditory, and visual cues in relation to subject-specific angular displacement thresholds. Performance on the battery of the 14 balance and gait tasks (without BF) was re-assessed immediately after the 2 week training period, as well as 1 week later to examine BF carry-over effects. Significant reductions in trunk angular displacement were observed with the real-time BF, compared to the pre-test trials. The effects of BF persisted when BF was removed immediately after the final training session. BF carry-over effects were less evident at one week post-training. This evidence supports the potential short-term effects of BF training in a limited number of tasks after the BF is removed in healthy elderly subjects and those with vestibular loss. However, the prospect for longer term (>1 week) effects of prosthetic training on balance control remains currently unknown.

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Improving impaired balance function: Real-time versus carry-over effects of prosthetic feedback

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Horslen

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2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

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“…Audio feedback devices are commonly used for improper performance warning (e.g. risk postures [18], gait diagnosis [19]), and visual feedback 4 Microsoft Kinect: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/kinect [28,29] emphasises the illustration of current performance and desired objectives (e.g. 3D shoulder position detection [20], swimmers performance measurement [21]).…”

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A Survey on Biofeedback and Actuation in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)

Lai

Lee

2017

IEEE Rev. Biomed. Eng.

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Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have attained increasing popularity as the next generation framework of wearable technologies for human monitoring. Invasive or noninvasive wearable sensors designed in a WBAN are worn to gather vital information. Biofeedback is a recent concept where collected data are used to generate actuation signals in WBANs. Applications can be seen in various areas such as sports (e.g., locomotor velocity) or medicine (e.g., blood pressure measurement). However, since the body is closely regulated, the next generation WBAN technology must be smart enough to react to monitored data. The main aim of this paper is to review the current state of biofeedback and actuation technology on WBANs in terms of its structure, applications, benefits, and control approaches. The emphasis on the specific requirements when applying biofeedback to humans will be highlighted and discussed. Challenges and open research issues will be concluded at the end.

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“…This kind of biofeedback is known as Audio Bio-Feedback (ABF) [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. J. Petrofsky describes in [4] the use of ABF for the recover ten subjects with injury in the spinal cord with the walking capacity compromised by a reduction in the muscle strength of the hip adductor (Trendelenburg's sign).…”

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Towards the improvement of postural stability through audio bio-feedback

Costantini

Casali

Todisco

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP) Proceedings

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We describe a bio-feedback system for\ud rehabilitation based on an accelerometric sensor, a processing\ud unit and an output unit. The sensory unit, which incorporates a\ud cell with three uni-axial accelerometers and three rate\ud gyroscopes, is mounted on the subject’s back (L5 level) using a\ud velcro belt and allows to evaluate the trunk accelerations in the\ud anterior-posterior (AP) and medial-lateral (ML) directions. The\ud processing unit is composed by a laptop with Arduino board, able\ud to acquire in real time data coming from sensory unit through\ud the data acquisition module of Max/MSP, and to produce an\ud audio output. The output unit is a pair of headphones which\ud produce a kind of sound whose activation level is proportional to\ud the magnitude of patient’s displacement. A set of experiments\ud have been carried out in order to measure the performance of\ud this system, and results show that it can significantly improve\ud rehabilitation times

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Energetic assessment of trunk postural modifications induced by a wearable audio-biofeedback system

Cited by 34 publications

References 17 publications

Improving impaired balance function: Real-time versus carry-over effects of prosthetic feedback

Improving impaired balance function: Real-time versus carry-over effects of prosthetic feedback

A Survey on Biofeedback and Actuation in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)

Towards the improvement of postural stability through audio bio-feedback

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