Sensory technology for the best possible therapy for incomplete paraplegia

People with incomplete spinal cord injury suffer from limited mobility and often make very slow progress in therapy, which is also usually very strenuous. This is where the NeMoRehab project comes in, which kicked off in Porto at the end of 2023: In the joint project, which is funded by the EU as part of the EUREKA Eurostars 3 program, scientists from Germany, Spain and Portugal will be researching a new type of biofeedback system for monitoring individual therapy progress over the next three years: brain activity (EEG) and muscle activity (EMG) will be analyzed in order to adapt the therapy using functional electrical stimulation and individually optimize the therapy parameters.

The aim is to achieve personalized therapy that will enable patients to recover more quickly and live with as few restrictions as possible. In the sub-project "Technologies for sensors, sensor applicators and data processing methods for multimodal biofeedback applications", researchers at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMTI) led by Prof. Patrique Fiedler, Head of Data Analysis in Life Sciences at TU Ilmenau, are developing selected hardware and software components for the overall system. This also includes applicators for positioning sensors on the body of the affected persons.

The focus of the sub-project is to process and analyse the measured signals in order to minimize sensor failures or malfunctions. The information obtained in this way will then be used to analyze brain and muscle activity and adjust the stimulation parameters for the best possible therapeutic progress.

We look forward to working with our partner institutions

INOVA+

eemagine Medical Imaging Solutions GmbH

Universidade do Minho

Nelson Azevedo-Terapias Globais

Unipessoal

Lda Bitsphi Diagnosis

CEN - Centro Europeo de Neurociencias CENNEURO