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Low-cost, sensor-equipped insole to monitor gait of patients with mobility impairments
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Low-cost, sensor-equipped insole to monitor gait of patients with mobility impairments

by University of Massachusetts Amherst An interdisciplinary team of University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers has developed a low-cost shoe insole, equipped with force-sensitive resistors (FSR), that aims to improve the management of health conditions that impair mobility, such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease and osteoarthritis. The insole “measures two important kinetic parameters that are relevant to...