It is important to know how healthy people control foot placement, so that we may understand what goes wrong in people who have neurological disorders which may cause them to fall. |
The effects are immediate. This will help patients now. We are educating physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dietitians — the entire healthcare team. We're giving them the tools they need to better treat patients. |
We have demonstrated that vision can be used in an online fashion to fine-tune foot placement during a step. It was previously thought that vision was used to plan the step in advance but not necessarily monitor its ongoing progress. |
We observed that when vision was restored, corrective adjustments were made as the foot came close to the target. |