Development of walking ability classification system

Abstract

It is our goal to decrease the number of people who need nursing to solve various problems in the elderly community. Therefore the increase of rehabilitation for people who are not able to walk is hoped for. It is a difficult problem because rehabilitation is done by a physical therapist's qualitative evaluation based on his/her own professional experience and educational training. So in our study, we quantified horizontal walking and analyzed the correlation between walking ability evaluations done by physical therapists and parameters of horizontal walking. Based on this data, we developed the system that classifies walking ability.