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Patent US10744324
Issued 2020-08-18
Apparatus For Management Of A Parkinson's Disease Patient's Gait
A gait management apparatus applies stimulation to a user suffering from a neurological disease (such as Parkinson's Disease) gait dysfunction. Motion sensors are arranged to be worn by a patient, and electrical stimulation electrodes are on the legs for stimulation. A controller receives motion sensing signals, and processes these signals to generate stimulation signals for operation of the electrodes to stimulate limb movement upon detection of a gait abnormality. There may be a user actuator for user actuation of electrical stimulation, and the inputs may be a series of taps. The controller may provide signals to prevent occurrence of freezing of gait when it senses that a patient is walking or has an intention to walk. Also, it may apply stimulation at an intensity level which is insufficient for functional muscle stimulation but sufficiently high to trigger activation of efferent nerves.
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- 1. A gait management apparatus comprising:
at least one motion sensor configured for sensing motion of a user, at least one cueing actuator including electrical stimulation electrodes, the electrical stimulation electrodes configured for stimulating a body part of the user, a memory for storing a non-transitory computer program, and a controller programmed to execute the program stored in the memory to allow the controller to receive motion sensing signals from said at least one motion sensor, to perform automatic detection of a gait dysfunction or potential gait dysfunction, and to activate said cueing actuator automatically upon said detection, wherein the at least one motion sensor, the at least one cueing actuator, the electrical stimulation electrodes, the memory, and the controller are in electrical contact, wherein the controller and the cueing actuator are programmed to perform at least one selected from the group consisting of sensory level cueing and motor level cueing, and wherein the controller is programmed to determine characteristics of a patient and to activate cueing customised to the patient.
