BLAIN TOMLINSON,DAVID ECKHOUS,DANIEL B. EDNEY,ROYCE RUMSEY
申请号：
US13442650
公开号：
US20120259255A1
申请日:
2012.04.09
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
Provided is a comfortable and discrete device wearable by a patient to restore balance and gait. The device re-establishes the sensorimotor loop by providing the patient with a secondary signal to healthy nerves around the knee to alert the patient that the patients heel has just struck the ground. In this regard, the device monitors the patients leg movements to detect when the patients heel strikes the ground and sends the secondary signal, i.e., vibrotactile stimulation, in response to the detected heel strike. The central nervous system incorporates the new signal and the motor system responds as if there is not loss of sensation in the foot and returns to its normal gait.
