propelling pediatric gait from clinical settings to home-use

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Description

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the predominant cause of physical disability in childhood. Solely in Europe, a baby with CP is born every 53 minutes.

CP can be defined as a group of neurological disorders that appears in infancy as the result of a non-progressive injury to the central nervous system. Individuals with CP experience pathological gait patterns that progress over-time with child’s grow, increasing energy cost of walking and causing pain and joint degeneration.

With inGAIT project, we aim to go beyond the conventional methods of CP rehabilitation by investigating the expansion of novel technologies to daily-life. Our motivation for this research is to improve the quality of life of children with CP and similar motor disorders.

This project is awarded by the Dutch Research Council NWO, under the grant Veni-TTW-2020 with reference number 18079. Veni grants are part of NWO's Talent programme, aiming young doctorates to conduct independent research and develop their own ideas for a period of three years.

Project starting date: 15 November 2021