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INFORMATION FUSION
卷 70, 期 -, 页码 115-128出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2021.01.002
关键词
Body sensor network; Hippotherapy; Cerebral palsy; Sensor fusion; Rehabilitation medicine
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61473058, 61873044, 61803072, 61903062]
- National Science Foundation of Liaoning Province [2019-MS-056]
- Dalian Science and Technology Innovation fund [2018J12SN077, 2019J13SN99, 2020JJ27SN067]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [DUT20JC03, DUT20JC44]
Hippotherapy is a new rehabilitation therapy for children with cerebral palsy, and a method based on body sensor network is proposed to evaluate its effectiveness. The results show that symptoms of some CP children have been relieved, providing empirical basis for the application of hippotherapy in pediatric CP rehabilitation.
Hippotherapy is a new rehabilitation therapy for children with cerebral palsy (CP). Although it has been proved to be effective in clinical research, a quantitative evaluation of such results is still lacking in previous studies. In this research, one method for evaluating the effectiveness of hippotherapy based on body sensor network (BSN) is proposed. The method adopts distributed magnetic, angular rate, and gravity (MARG) sensors to evaluate the gross motor function of CP children by multi-sensor data fusion algorithm, the comparison results with the golden standard optical capture system demonstrate the robustness of sensor fusion algorithm. Moreover, via tracking one-year's hippotherapy projects, a pilot study was conducted for measuring and evaluating the motor coordination function and gait parameters of CP children. Finally, the rehabilitation of gross motor function for the chosen subjects under different treatment periods was evaluated through kinematic analysis. The results of our method show that some children's symptoms, such as limb stiffness, poor joint range of motion, scissors gait, knee flexion gait, have been relieved. Thus, it provides an empirical basis for hippotherapy in the rehabilitation of motor function corresponding to CP children.
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