World Health Organization, defines stroke as a clinical syndrome that is shown by rapidly developing clinical signs of focal disorders on brain function that last more than 24 hours or cause death without any apparent cause other than vascular origin. One of the parameters that need to be measured on walking training of stroke patients is stride length. Stride length can be measured based on the heel to heel distance and can be used to determines how far the patient walk on each step, via inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor. Stroke can be pevented and is considered as a treatable disease. This attack can present with the sudden onset of neurological disorders, including weakness or numbness of limbs, speech disorders, loss of vision or balance disorders.

Papers:

Hurt, C. P., Lein, D. H., Smith, C. R., Curtis, J. R., Westfall, A. O., Cortis, J., … Willig, J. H. (2018). Assessing a novel way to measure step count while walking using a custom mobile phone application. PLOS ONE, 13(11), e0206828.

Benjamin, E. J., Blaha, M. J., Chiuve, S. E., Cushman, M., Das, S. R., Deo, R., … American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee, P. (2017). Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics-2017 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association. Circulation, 135(10), e146–e603.

Coupland, A. P., Thapar, A., Qureshi, M. I., Jenkins, H., & Davies, A. H. (2017). The definition of stroke. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 110(1), 9–12.

Danks, K. A., Roos, M. A., McCoy, D., & Reisman, D. S. (2014). A step activity monitoring program improves real world walking activity post stroke. Disability and Rehabilitation, 36(26), 2233–2236.