An assembly of electronic devices intended to electrically stimulate the tongue during physical therapy to help rehabilitate body balance, and sometimes gait. The device may: 1) provide biofeedback for training of balance by sensing body movements and producing signals translated into electrical stimuli applied to the tongue enabling a patient to correlate electrotactile stimulation with head/body position; or 2) combine sensorimotor activity with tongue stimulation to modulate brain activity (neuromodulation), via the trigeminal nerve, and treat chronic balance/gait deficits. It consists primarily of a wearable pulse generator/controller and connected electrode array applied to the tongue.
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