Abstract
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurological degenerative disease with high impact on our society. In order to mitigate its effects, proper rehabilitation therapy is mandatory, in which individualisation is a key factor. Technological solutions can provide the information required for this purpose, by monitoring patients and extracting relevant indicators. In this work, a novel Sensorized Tip is proposed for monitoring People with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) that require Assistive Devices for Walking (ADW) such as canes or crutches. The developed Sensorized Tip can be adapted to the personal ADW of each patient to reduce its impact, and provides sensor data while naturally walking in the everyday activities. This data that can be processed to obtain relevant indicators that helps assessing the status of the patient. Different from other approaches, a full validation of the proposed processing algorithms is carried out in this work, and a preliminary study-case is carried out with PwMS considering a set of indicators obtained from the Sensorized Tip’s processed data. Results of the preliminary study-case demonstrate the potential of the device to monitor and characterise patient status.
Highlights
It is estimated that 2.3 million people in the world suffer from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) [1]
It has been experimentally checked that an average healthy person generates angular speeds on the walking assist system less than 180 ◦ /s in x and y axes and 220 ◦ /s in the z axis
An error less than 1 ◦ /s is guaranteed in this range, which is acceptable for this application
Summary
It is estimated that 2.3 million people in the world suffer from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) [1]. This neurological disease has an important impact on society, as it is a chronic degenerating disease with no cure that appears in young people [2]. This implies an important economic impact on the health system, and in the active population, as the physical decline causes inability to work at early ages [3]. This work focuses on providing solutions for the needs of these patients
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