The Effectiveness of Visual Stimulation for a Stationary Rehabilitation Trainer
Part Of
2025 SICE Festival with Annual Conference, SICE FES 2025
Start Page
1421
End Page
1425
ISBN (of the container)
9784907764869
ISBN
9784907764869
Date Issued
2025
Author(s)
Chang, Chia-Wei
Tan, Yin-Keat
Cheng, Hsin-Ti
Lin, Ang-Chieh
Cheng, Lin-Yen
Lin, Tzu-Tung
Chen, Szu-Fu
Abstract
This paper proposes a visual-assistance system for a stationary gait trainer, which employs Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT) for patients with stroke. NDT is an effective technique that can help the recovery of walking ability and motor coordination for stroke patients through repetitive practice of correct motor patterns. However, traditional NDT training methods require the presence of therapists, limiting patients' training time during the critical rehabilitation period. Therefore, we built an NDT trainer to repeat the therapists' intervention techniques and stimulate the subjects' consecutive movements by cuing the subjects' anterior-superior-iliac spine. This paper proposes visual stimulation to enhance the effects of rehabilitation. First, we develop a visual assistance system using the Unity game engine, which can provide real-time visual stimulations to help stroke patients correct their gait patterns more efficiently. Finally, we invite stroke patients to conduct clinical NDT experiments. Based on the results, the visual-assistance system effectively improves the subjects' gait symmetry, pelvic rotation, walking speed, and step length.
Event(s)
2025 SICE Festival with Annual Conference, SICE FES 2025, Chiang Mai, 9 September 2025 - 12 September 2025
Subjects
gait
neuro-developmental treatment
rehabilitation
stroke
trainer
visual
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Type
conference paper