Skin-inspired sensors help measure and understand mobility

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The sensors can be stitched into textiles to help measure disease progress in people with Parkinson’s or sense joint movement in athletes, for example.

Ajay Kottapalli, assistant professor at the engineering and technology institute Groningen (ENTEG, part of the University of Groningen), says: “I work with a unit at the University Medical Centre in Groningen that is interested in human movement monitoring.”

He adds: “They are particularly interested in understanding how patients with Parkinson’s or multiple sclerosis move and how their gait and posture changes over time with disease progression. So we thought wearable sensors could help here.