This thesis presents a real time software program written in MATLAB using off-the-self MEMS sensors from Shimmer-Research®. Parallel to the software development, a proof of concept was conducted using the produced program to quantify stride length, stride length variance and stride time for patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Results from testing showed that the system measured the mean stride length error to 2.4% of stride length and a standard deviation of 13.7% of stride length. Results from testing further showed a stride time error of 2.70% of individual stride times with a standard deviation of 1.89%. The system shows promise as a pedagogical, gait analysis training tool for physiotherapists as well as in academic teaching. The system is flexible and data processing functions can be readily re-programmed with other or additional processing features while maintaining user feedback, storage and plotting functionalities implemented in the current version of the program.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kth-127545 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Svantesson, Oscar |
| Publisher | KTH, Medicinsk teknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | TRITA-STH ; 2013:100 |
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