Rationale in Designing a New System for Gait Rehabilitation

Abstract

Our multidisciplinary team decided to concentrate efforts in developing a new gait rehabilitation system, able to respond to most of the requirements of an ideal training system. Therefore, we identified the system’s necessary, we compared the costs and the benefits of the existing concepts and systems, and we developed the concept and the design of the system called RELIVE. Developing this system makes the object of a funded national research and development project.

Assessing the Relationship between Joint Damage and Gait Impairment in Children with Haemophilic Arthropathy. A Clinical Study

“…For this multilevel approach we have to refer to the International Classification of Functioning. [19,20] It is important that we understand the value and the limits of each of the tools we use in order to assess the damage, if we want to be able to help the patient to regain his/her functional optimal capacity.…”

Advanced technology for gait rehabilitation: An overview

“…When designing new technology for ambulation rehabilitation, one must acknowledge and promote new principles of training for ambulation rehabilitation: 'SFP', mentioned by PL Seiciu, in 2014, 103 in order to express the necessity of the active involvement and choice/intention of the patient concerning the trajectory and gait parameters he or she must follow in order to solve a specific imposed or freely chosen task; 'Ambulatory Environment -AE' underlines the importance of training the whole body and mind together at the same time. When we say whole body we have to realize that the unaffected lower or upper limb in a stroke patient will also not function correctly because of the affected side.…”

“…‘SFP’, mentioned by PL Seiciu, in 2014, 103 in order to express the necessity of the active involvement and choice/intention of the patient concerning the trajectory and gait parameters he or she must follow in order to solve a specific imposed or freely chosen task;…”