A researcher in the UAE has developed a new technique to measure stroke damage in order to help doctors better measure the severity of strokes and improve the rehabilitation conditions of patients.
The UAE's biomedical engineer, Dr. Kinda Khalaf, and her research team at Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KUST) seek to better understand the severity of the onslaught by monitoring the way stroke patients walk.
Khalaf and her team have developed a previous technique, which measures how to distribute body weight pressure through footprints to see how much improvement or worsening in people with diabetes, is currently applying a similar approach through the new technique to measure the severity of stroke.
“Stroke is one of the most prominent health problems in the Arab world, and the incidence of young people in it seems to be on the rise,” Kinda Khalaf, co-head of the biomedical engineering department at Khalifa University, told Future Observatory. The UAE, for example, is about 15 to 20 years less than the rest of the world, and leads to interruption of blood supply to the brain, causing the death of cells due to loss of oxygen, and if the stroke is delayed, the patient may suffer permanent brain damage or death, We therefore seek to develop an integrated method for determining the extent of stroke worsening, and in the presence of P "A small stroke after a stroke to rebuild damaged nerve routes, knowing the severity of the damage is key."
The new technique is based on an analysis of the way patients walk stroke, to detect the presence of a deficit in the gait; such as the difficulty of lifting and dragging the foot and twisting fingers and small step, and then integrates gait analysis with the results of the EKG and measuring the electrical activity of the heart and planning the measurement of electrical activity of the muscles of the body, to reach Results on the severity of stroke and accelerate the recovery process.
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Dr. Kinda has won several international awards, including the Engineering Lady Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement several times, the Presidential Fellowship Award, the prestigious National Research Excellence Award and the Khalifa University Excellence Award.
Khalaf is currently conducting research in the fields of bone biomechanics, computational biomechanics and biomedical devices and biomaterials. She also co-founded a multidisciplinary educational research group at Khalifa University, focusing on the implementation of innovative curricula and the design of quantitative assessment tools in engineering education.
A biomedical engineer, along with her research team at Khalifa University of Science and Technology, seeks to provide a better understanding of the severity of a pathological attack by monitoring the way stroke patients walk.