Wearable and Wireless Systems for Healthcare I by Robert LeMoyne & Timothy Mastroianni

Author:Robert LeMoyne & Timothy Mastroianni
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore

Keywords

Wireless accelerometerPatellar tendon reflexReflex responseReflex latencyWireless quantified reflex deviceImpact pendulum

5.1 Introduction

During the era of the mid to later 2000s the advancement of wireless accelerometer systems attained sufficient miniaturization to serve also as wearable applications. In particular LeMoyne et al. pursued the role of wireless accelerometers for the domain of reflex quantification and gait analysis. This level of wireless accelerometer capability was localized in nature for access to a proximally situated laptop computer [1–3]. Although relative to the current state technology for wearable and wireless systems far transcend the applications addressed in the current chapter, they serve as a keystone to the pending developments and methodologies.

During 2005 LeMoyne et al. sought to quantify patellar tendon reflex response data in a objectively and eventually reliable manner through the evolution of a wireless reflex quantification device. The inherent fundamentals of the wireless reflex quantification device are the capability to evoke the patellar tendon reflex through a preselected level of potential energy that can be precisely targeted to an aspect of the patellar tendon. The other fundamental concept was to measure the reflex response through the objective quantification of a wireless accelerometer system that is essentially wearable about the lateral malleolus of the ankle through an elastic band. These fundamentals attributes served as the basis for the evolution of the wireless quantified reflex device over the course of four generations [3, 4].

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