Patent ID: 8652071
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: A61B,G06K

Abstract:
1. One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for identifying a risk of falling for a unique patient based on comparison results for one or more biokinetographic values for one or more specific components of a gait cycle, the method comprising: obtaining biokinetographic data for the unique patient; identifying in said biokinetographic data one or more biokinetographic values for the one or more specific components of a gait cycle of the unique patient, wherein the specific components of the gait cycle are one or more of initiation of gait movement, base of gait, cadence, gait turnaround or arm swing during gait movement; comparing each of the one or more biokinetographic values of the gait cycle of the unique patient to a corresponding standard of one or more specific dysfunctions for each of the one or more biokinetographic values of the gait cycle; utilizing the comparison results for each of the one or more biokinetographic values of the gait cycle of the unique patient to determine one or more specific dysfunctions associated with the one or more biokinetographic values, wherein the comparison results are based on the comparison of each of the one or more biokinetographic values of the gait cycle of the unique patient to a corresponding standard of the one or more specific dysfunctions for each of the one or more biokinetographic values of the gait cycle; and identifying the risk of the unique patient falling based on the comparison results for each of the one or more biokinetographic values of the gait cycle of the unique patient when the biokinetographic value for the unique patient is slow cadence with less than 100 steps per minute or include a heel strike interval greater than 330 milliseconds, wherein the one or more biokinetographic values comprise magnitude of accelerations of less than one gravitational unit.