The DST Triple Sense combines all three mandatory gait functions –flat-surface walking, climbing stairs and negotiating slopes, with the most advanced pressure mapping technology, providing a comprehensive, evidence based treatment.
It helps diagnose, treat, and study patients’ ambulatory capabilities on neurological, orthopedic, and geriatric rehabilitation.
Features
All you need in one device
Realtime Biofeedback
for key parameters
Pressure Mapping
For All Gait Functions
Research
with Raw Data
3 Meters
Parallel-Bars
Height Adjustable
Staircase
Angle Adjustable
Slope
Analyzed Data Includes:
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Right/left force distribution
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Anterior/posterior force distribution
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Center of Pressure
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Feet angle
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Step length
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Step time
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Stair usage - height and time
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Slope usage - degree and time
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Parallel bars – 3 meter walk-time
Biofeedback
The benefits of real-time gait biofeedback in rehabilitation has already been proven to encourage significant and clinically relevant improvements (Gelder, 2017; Genthe, 2018). The DST Triple Sense takes these benefits to the next level by providing real-time feedback on patient’s performance in all three functionalities: stairs, slope, and parallel bars.
Physiotherapists must multi-task, keeping patients safe and motivated while maintaining correct posture, motion and more. The DST Triple Sense puts an end to this struggle by employing visual and auditory biofeedback to help patients regain control and stay motivated during the exercise. Physiotherapists can now guide and secure their patients throughout the course of the exercise without having to worry about its quality or missing compensations.
Clinicians can choose the most relevant movement pattern for their patient to practice and use real-time biofeedback to improve upon it. For example, a clinician can decide to focus on symmetric weight bearing between the legs, and adjust the acceptable asymmetry threshold (in percentages). When the patient rises to the challenge and performs within the thresholds, a positive feedback signal will be heard. If the patient deviates from the decided thresholds, the positive auditory feedback will stop.
Example - Foot Angle
Biofeedback settings
Two possible areas for calibration
Acceptable range
Available parameters
for biofeedback
Current Center of Pressure
Patient's pressure mapping
Device height and feet index
Feet size
Feedback
When the patient functions outside the defined range, a negative sound is heard, and the data is colored red on the screen.
You can see the exact angle of each step for each foot.
Improvement
On the Pressure View window (on the left), you can see improvement in the right foot angle from step to step.
On the right you can see the sessions angle average by foot.
Allowing patients to track their progress in an accurate and timely manner, and rewarding them accordingly with real-time positive feedback, will increase their motivation and overall commitment to the rehabilitation process.
Diagnosis
Bridging the void between the clinic and the lab
Treatment report
The lack of evidence-based measuring tools makes it difficult to justify treatment to insurance companies. This in turn denies patients from maximizing their rehabilitation potential in minimum time. DST Triple Sense bridges the technology void between the clinical and laboratory environments. Clinicians can now implement the most effective treatment for each patient based on hard evidence – without consuming precious lab resources such as time, space, and labor.
Diagnose you patients’ source of impairment, create an accurate treatment plan, and keep track on their progress – all without leaving the clinic!
DST Triple Sense system is the only mechanism which enables gait analysis and diagnosis of movement impairments in all three areas: parallel bars, stairs, and slope. The system provides data regarding uneven weight distribution, step length and time, center of pressure , weight distribution of the foot, and more. The obtained information will help you identify the root cause of patient’s impairment, create an accurate treatment plan, keep track of a patient’s progress, and reveal the risk factors inherent in dangerous situations, such as falls. The bottom line is simple: optimal treatment efficiency, maximum rehabilitation potential, and reduction of rehab costs and duration.
Research
Supporting the advancement of gait rehabilitation
The body of research on stairs and slope movement analysis is vast and holds great opportunities. DST Triple Sense is the only instrument in the world to combine all three gait functions with force plate measurement technology, for a full-scale pressure mapping. A truly groundbreaking research opportunity would be the development of metrics for the setting of threshold tests aim to reduce stair-related falls among the elderly.
Compared to falls on flat surface, falls on stairs represent a disproportional high risk for death or sever injury. Typical injuries include the head and neck, TBI, and hip fracture. These injuries are known to result in long-term disability and high financial costs.
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51% of all fall-related Traumatic Brain Injuries of the elderly occur on stairs.
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70% of all falls in the home environment occur on stairs.
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10% of all falls among the elderly occur on stairs.
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10% Of all fatal fall accidents occurs on stairs
Development of acceptable threshold parameters to reduce falls among the elderly will save lives, money, and resources.
ANALYZED DATA
graphs showing progress by parameter, for each foot
RAW DATA
pressure matrix for each session
Other research opportunities include an analysis of the correlation between movement patterns occurring during stairs and slope negotiation and their clinical consequences, and the impact of diverse exercise methods over patients’ performances, evaluated with real-time biofeedback.