The whole world experienced in the last decades a continuous change in the age pyramid related to the population aging, where there is an increase in the elderly population (over 65 years) when compared with other age groups [1]. Such demographic change is not essentially an issue, since it demonstrates that the life expectancy is increasing, directly related to many advances in medicine, public health and biotechnology as well as social and economic developments that allow access for the general population to health treatments [1]. The population aging in conjunction with chronic diseases, where some of them are also age-related, leads to some clinical conditions that can affect human health such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and weakness of the skeletal muscles [2]. These clinical conditions can lead to different types of disabilities, and the most common type is locomotion impairment, which occurs with nearly 14% of the world population [3] and represents around 1 billion people. As locomotor impairment harms work performance, activities of daily living and independence in the community, there is a necessity for continuous treatment of the different conditions that result in locomotor impairments.

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光纤集成智能结构：面向医疗保健 4.0 的透明设备

在过去的几十年里，全世界经历了与人口老龄化相关的年龄金字塔的持续变化，与其他年龄组相比，老年人口（65 岁以上）有所增加[1]。这种人口变化本质上并不是一个问题，因为它表明预期寿命正在增加，这与医学、公共卫生和生物技术的许多进步以及社会和经济发展直接相关，这些发展使一般人群能够获得健康治疗 [1] ]。人口老龄化与慢性病（其中一些也与年龄有关）导致一些影响人类健康的临床状况，如骨关节炎、类风湿性关节炎、阿尔茨海默病、帕金森病和骨骼肌无力 [2] . 这些临床状况可导致不同类型的残疾，最常见的类型是运动障碍，世界人口的近 14% [3] 和大约 10 亿人都有这种情况。由于运动障碍会损害社区的工作表现、日常生活活动和独立性，因此有必要对导致运动障碍的不同情况进行持续治疗。