GaitREHub · Intelligent Wearable System for Enhanced Personalized Gait Rehabilitation
Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2023-01-01 → 2026-12-31
- EU contribution
- €915,400
- Participants
- 7
- Scheme
- HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE
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Results in brief
Intelligent Wearable System for Enhanced Personalized Gait Rehabilitation
The GaitREHub project wants to provide an innovative solution - an Interactive Smart Wearable System for Personalized Gait Rehabilitation, by developing an interactive tool for rehabilitation at home with real-time tele-monitoring from the clinic. This system enables gait training for neurologically injured patients and any other patient in need of gait rehabilitation, in their own homes. Our solutions allow patients to practice walking, have their performance and improvement monitored in real-time by professionals, and reduce the costs associated with traditional clinical treatment. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of many health systems in the EU and globally, and the dire need for their digital transformation, including remote connections between healthcare workers and remote patient-monitoring technologies. This project contributes significantly to supporting this increasingly important transformation, ultimately contributing to the UN’s SDG 3 (Good health and Well-being). Given the widespread adoption of and adaptation to online forms of working due to the Covid-19 pandemic, providing online support for gait training represents a natural next step in providing rehabilitation for mobility impaired patients. This matters especially to vulnerable patients for whom direct contact or hospital visits might represent a real risk. The overall objective of this project proposal is to create an international and inter-sectoral network of leading organisations working on a joint research programme in the domains of computational modelling, 3D printing, smart wearable sensors, electronics, robotics and software expert systems.
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Project objective
One common consequence of specific medical conditions such as stroke or other brain injuries, and certain operations, is the need for post event rehabilitation. In many cases, the inability to walk properly requires professionally monitored gait rehabilitation. Gait rehabilitation is important to restore the gait performance of mobility impaired patients and gait training frequency represents a key factor for effective rehabilitation. GaitREHub aims to develop an effective, comprehensive approach to providing targeted home-based gait rehabilitation, by integrating cutting-edge technologies, from the areas of (1) computer-based design and modelling of customized smart insole/socks, (2) wearable sensors and flexible embedded electronics realization, (3) home assistive robots, data analytics and artificial intelligence algorithms development as well as user-friendly software tool for gait rehabilitation, and (4) pre-clinical validation of the developed holistic, integrated and interactive system (our “REHub”). The GaitREHub consortium consists of international recognized institutions and organizations, 4 from academic and 3 from industrial sector, from Belgium, Italy, Greece, Serbia, Chile and Thailand. GaitREHub will facilitate the exchange of knowledge, skills and competencies throughout 199 person-months of carefully planned secondments, promoting international and interdisciplinary collaboration and disseminating the project results to all stakeholders. This interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial project offers an excellent research and innovation environment for the personal and professional growth of the seconded staff members. The outputs of GaitREHub will effectively enhance the personalized rehabilitation of neurologically injured patients and any other patient in need of gait rehabilitation, while also sustaining R&I collaboration within the consortium, developing the potential for commercialization, and working to improve health outcomes for our society.
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Participants
Links
- View on CORDIS
- DOI: 10.3030/101086348
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5f84734ad&appId=PPGMS
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