A Contribution to Motorized Rehabilitation Devices

Alena Galajdova, Dusan Simsik, Boris Jobbagy, Marián Veselíny

2014

Abstract

One of the most critical situations in life of seniors is a fall. Paper describes an experience of authors from the development of a special rehabilitation tool for training of seniors who are in higher risk of falls. Rehabilitation shoe SMILING is output of the international project supported by the European Commission. Authors shortly describe the mechanical design of the motorised rehabilitation device controlled by a chaotic signal. Paper is focusing on some results from the experimental work during clinical testing of the prototype in Slovakia.

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in Harvard Style

Galajdova A., Simsik D., Jobbagy B. and Veselíny M. (2014). A Contribution to Motorized Rehabilitation Devices . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: TPDULL, (BIOSTEC 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-013-0, pages 323-328. DOI: 10.5220/0004935803230328


in Bibtex Style

@conference{tpdull14,
author={Alena Galajdova and Dusan Simsik and Boris Jobbagy and Marián Veselíny},
title={A Contribution to Motorized Rehabilitation Devices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: TPDULL, (BIOSTEC 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={323-328},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004935803230328},
isbn={978-989-758-013-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: TPDULL, (BIOSTEC 2014)
TI - A Contribution to Motorized Rehabilitation Devices
SN - 978-989-758-013-0
AU - Galajdova A.
AU - Simsik D.
AU - Jobbagy B.
AU - Veselíny M.
PY - 2014
SP - 323
EP - 328
DO - 10.5220/0004935803230328