Miracle insole to help the elderly avoid falls
Nov 27, 2010
Joint Program at MIT and Harvard University aims to develop a device that helps the elderly avoid falls, related to violation of motor coordination and lead to serious injury. This instrument is an insole for shoes, which, since a variety of sensors that allows you to record and analyze changes in motor coordination.
Inventor of the wonderful insoles - Herizo Lieberman, who is a graduate student at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute. During an internship at NASA, Lieberman has been included in a group of scientists involved in the problem of recovering the coordination of movements of astronauts for a long time, stayed in orbit. That's when the idea came to her to use these developments to help the elderly.
Miracle insole is a device the size of a regular footbed insole, stuffed with various sensors that are accumulating data about the pressure on different parts of the foot. Enough to provide this data to analyze the doctor and he will be able to determine whether the high probability of an accident with an elderly man.
Inventor of the wonderful insoles - Herizo Lieberman, who is a graduate student at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute. During an internship at NASA, Lieberman has been included in a group of scientists involved in the problem of recovering the coordination of movements of astronauts for a long time, stayed in orbit. That's when the idea came to her to use these developments to help the elderly.
Miracle insole is a device the size of a regular footbed insole, stuffed with various sensors that are accumulating data about the pressure on different parts of the foot. Enough to provide this data to analyze the doctor and he will be able to determine whether the high probability of an accident with an elderly man.
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