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BeatHealth: When Music-Movement Synchronization Enhances Health and Wellness| old_uid | 13418 |
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| title | BeatHealth: When Music-Movement Synchronization Enhances Health and Wellness |
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| start_date | 2017/03/23 |
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| schedule | 10h30-12h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | EuroMov |
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| details | avec la participation de Petra Ihalainen et de Valérie Cochen De Cock |
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| summary | Musical rhythm naturally engages our body. This propensity to coordinate movement to musical beat is natural for humans, exploits the periodic property of brain activity, is hard-wired, transcends generations, places, and cultures, and can potentially promote health and wellness. The main goal of BeatHealth (FP7 2013-2016) was to exploit this compelling link between musical beat and movement in order to enhance health and well-being in healthy individuals and patient populations. Our goal was achieved by the creation of an intelligent and personalized technological architecture — BeatHealth — delivering on the fly personalized rhythmical stimulation, focused on movement rehabilitation (Parkinson patients suffering from movement disorders) and performance enhancement (healthy citizens with moderate physical activity).
In this multi-voice presentation, we will present the main activity performed by the consortium in 36 months, which involved several iterative steps including (i) fundamental research in motor coordination and control aimed at improving information and music parameters, for maximizing the beneficial effects of rhythmic stimulation on movement kinematics and physiology, (ii) creation of a music database (639 songs) suiting both task- and user-specific qualities, (iii) technological development to achieve state-of-the-art system reliability, flexibility, reactivity and portability of the BeatHealth architecture, both at the level of sensors and music-movement synchronization algorithms, and (iv) the creation of a new IT service in the form of a cloud client that was integrated with the BeatHealth app, and a cloud service which incorporated both the web based interface and the storage platform.
The beneficial effects of the successive BeatHealth versions were evaluated in 400+ participants (both patients suffering from Parkinson Disease and healthy adults) across 15+ experiments performed in various work packages during the funding period, with the goal to select the most efficient music-movement synchronization strategy to enhance walking and running performances. In our presentation, we will concentrate on the efficacy of the final BeatHealth system — incorporating a “soft” spatio-temporal synchronization tool, which was evaluated into two complementary proof-of-concept studies performed in a natural context during the final phase of the project. The BeatPark proof-of concept included 45 Parkinson patients who followed a home-based rehabilitation program (5 times a week during 4 weeks), and showed a positive effect on both motivational variables and distance walked. The BeatRun proof-of-concept included 29 young healthy runners who trained 5 times a week during 5 weeks in ecological conditions, and showed the propensity of BeatHealth to increase cadence and reduce stride length, a typical profile compatible with lower biomechanical constraints and better performances.
BeatHealth was an interdisciplinary project at the cross-over of Motor Coordination and Control (UM), Music Engineering (UGent), Biosignal Sensor and Integration (NUIM), Cloud and Web Interface (TECNALIA), and Neurology (CHRU). The project generated several publications and conference communications, coverage in the international medias, and several contacts with industrial partners from the medical and music technology sectors. All activities are available at www.euromov.eu/beathealth. |
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| responsibles | Marin |
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