Gait training system using motion analysis

Abstract

A gait training system using motion analysis is provided to perform consecutive motion analysis while a person to be measured is walking on a treadmill. The gait training system includes a treadmill including a belt rotatable by a roller of which a rotating rate is adjustable in response to a walking speed of a walker; and measuring means for transferring signals associated with a movement of a body of the walker. The measuring means are attached to the body. A control unit analyzes a walking movement based on a data from the measuring means, and a display unit displays the data to the walker.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a gait training system using motion analysis, designed to perform consecutive motion analysis while a person to be measured is walking on a treadmill.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]Walking is a most efficient way to move that humans most frequently use. To treat those having difficulty in walking, motion analysis is an essential prerequisite.[0005]The motion analysis is carried out for the study of the movements of several body portions by using kinematic data, kinetic data and dynamic electromyography (EMG) data. To date, it has been a substantially unique motion analysis method that a doctor repeatedly examines with bare eyes walking behaviors of a musculo-skeletal patient. However, this method is impossible to objectively clarify various factors that might cause abnormal gait and changes in the abnormal gait. Accordingly, a motion analysis system with most advanced elect...

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Benefits of technology

[0010]The present invention has been made to solve the foregoing problems of the prior art and therefore an object of certain embodiments of the present invention is to provide a gait training system capable of measuring joint angle data of a patient in real-time and feeding the data back to the patient while the patient is walking, thereby enabling a gait training.

[0011]Another object of the invention is to provide a gait training system capable of using a treadmill with a rotating rate adjustable in response to a walking rate so that a patient can repeatedly walk at the same location in order to repeatedly analyze walking behaviors. This system can also feed gait data back in real-time to the patient so that the patient can perform training according to the motion analysis.

[0012]Further another object of the invention is to provide a gait training system of a relatively simple design, which can be installed in a relatively limited room, shorten a walking time of a patient, and afford real-time input data of motion analysis to the patient to perform gait training.

Problems solved by technology

However, this method is impossible to objectively clarify various factors that might cause abnormal gait and changes in the abnormal gait.

In addition, such systems are likely to spread more.

However, as a basic problem, this system cannot be applied to a gait training process which needs to analyze and feed back walking behaviors of a user in real-time to correct the gait.

In addition, a large amount of data is required to analyze gait information since gait is not performed at specific locations.

A large amount of time is also necessary to process such data.

Furthermore, since a motion analysis performed at one point does not ensure data reliability, a patient is required to walk repeatedly.

This, however, results in problems such as a prolonged time period for the motion analysis, accumulated fatigue of the patient and a large measuring space.

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