Abstract：
:Balance impairment is critical for many patient groups such as those with neural and musculoskeletal disorders and also the elderly. Accurate and objective assessment of balance performance has led to the development of several indices based on the measurement of the center of pressure. In this study, a robotic device was designed and fabricated to provide controlled and repeatable mechanical perturbations to the standing platform of the user. The device uses servo-controlled actuators and two parallel mechanisms to provide independent rotations in mediolateral and anterior-posterior directions. The device also provides visual feedback of the center of pressure position to the user. Functional tests were run and showed that the device is able to provide an appropriate dynamics (time constant of 0.19 s and bandwidth of 0.85 Hz) for the two motions. The efficacy of the device on the balance assessment was then evaluated experimentally. Ten healthy subjects performed a balance task with and without perturbations and seven center of pressure indices were measured. It was shown that the sensitivity of the indices to the user's performance was statistically increased in all indices particularly in anterior/posterior direction when the mechanical perturbations were present.
journal_name
Med Eng Physjournal_title
Medical engineering & physicsauthors
Baselizadeh A,Behjat A,Torabi A,Behzadipour Sdoi
10.1016/j.medengphy.2020.07.006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-09-01 00:00:00pages
7-14eissn
1350-4533issn
1873-4030pii
S1350-4533(20)30104-1journal_volume
83pub_type
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