Design of Interface for Gait Assessment in Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal cord injuries (SCI) occur when damage to any part of the spinal cord is sustained. Depending on what vertebrae segment the injury occurs, the patient will develop paraplegia or tetraplegia and have a complete or incomplete spinal cord injury. After sustaining a spinal cord injury, the patient must undergo rehabilitation. <br/><br/>For...

Designing a rehabilitation product for post-stroke patients

This is a report for the graduation assignment of Otmar Klaas for the Master program Integrated Product Design. The project is done at Philips Research Asia Shanghai (PRAS) and focuses on Post-Stroke Rehabilitation. The starting objective of the assignment was to create a home rehabilitation device that stimulated stroke patients to use the...