脳卒中片麻痺患者における不可知なケイデンス向上が可能なリズム誘引デバイスの開発

抄録

It is known that walking dysfunction occurs the stroke patients with hemiplegia and it declines quality of life. Even though cadence of stroke patients is one of the most significant factor of walking ability, it is difficult to improve the cadence of gait without abnormal effortful movement. Thus, we developed the implicit cueing device to improve the cadence in stroke patients. In this paper, we used the weber-ratio to prevent the notice of the change of cadence, and calculated the ratio through experimental study with stroke patients. Further, we conducted the clinical trial in six stroke patients. As a result, our study suggested that proposed device could increase the cadence of stroke patients without notice of the changes.