Vest Helps Keep Balance-Disorder Patients from Wobbling
From: IEEE Spectrum Tech Alert - 04/08/2010
By: Ann-Marie Corley

If you lose your sense of balance due to injury or disease, you’ll have to
learn how to walk all over again, and rehab is a slow and cumbersome process.
A new haptic vest could reduce falls and improve the quality of life for
patients with brain injuries. The vest can measure how the upper body rotates
and tilts as a person walks. If the torso wobbles, accelerometers on the
shoulders will detect those movements and the vest will give the wearer a
physical cue that he is listing to port or starboard. 

Read the entire article at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/vest-helps-keep-balancedisorder-patients-from-wobbling

Links:
CASIT
http://casit.ucla.edu/

Tactile Feedback for Prostheses and Sensory Neuropathy
http://casit.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=37

Vest to prevent balance disorder patients falling
http://www.physorg.com/news189771329.html