The Study of Elderly Gait with Using a Cane on Rehabilitation

Abstract

In this paper, hemiplegic gait of stroke patients was investigated and analyzed to assess their walking ability for rehabilitation program. The measurement of foot pressure distribution by using rubber sensors was made to study the characteristic difference between sound side and affected side. It was found from the results that this measurement system can describe characteristics on hemiplegic gait of stroke patients and is available to walking ability assessment.