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Gézengúz Foundation for Children with Birth Injuries offers a complex habilitation-rehabilitation therapy. The patented hemisphere-like tool, Huple®, can improve the balance ability of affected children. The reported research work focused not only on objectively and quantitatively assessing the balance ability but also increasing the devotion of children to take part actively in the habilitation. Based on a 3D accelerometer sensor children can control simple PC games with the hemisphere. This preoccupies them for quite a long time. Quantitative assessment of balance ability is based on the evaluation of the output signal of two sensors (one on the head and one on the Huple®. Inclination angle of the head to up right position of healthy subjects is close to zero even when tilting their trunk. For children with birth injuries this angle can be as high as 50 degrees.
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Jantek, B., Jobbágy, Á., Szemán, J., Schultheisz, J., Bacsó, P. (2009). Habilitation Aid for Children with Balance Disorders. In: Dössel, O., Schlegel, W.C. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 25/9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03889-1_3
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