Gait measurements in the transverse plane using a wearable system: An experimental study of test-retest reliability
| Autor: | Ryo Takeda, Valentina Agostini, Valeria Rosso, Shigeru Tadano, Laura Gastaldi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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030506 rehabilitation
medicine.medical_specialty Effect of gait parameters on energetic cost Kinematics transverse plane 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Gait (human) Physical medicine and rehabilitation Medicine overweight repeatability Simulation Magneto-inertial sensors business.industry wearable sensors Sagittal plane Transverse plane medicine.anatomical_structure Coronal plane Gait analysis gait analysis Ankle 0305 other medical science business human activities 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | I2MTC |
| Popis: | 3D gait analysis comprises the study of kinematics in the sagittal, coronal, and transverse planes. The transverse plane measurements are usually less used and generally show the lowest reliability. Nevertheless, the knee and ankle joint center trajectories, in the transverse plane, provide new parameters that may be important in clinical gait analysis. The aim of this study is to analyze the test-retest variability of these parameters. Gait measurements were performed using H-Gait, a wearable system based on magnetic and inertial sensors. A normal weight and an overweight subject were recruited and were asked to walk at their preferred speed for 6 trials. For both of them, the angle between the right and left knee and ankle joint center trajectories were analyzed. Overall, results showed a standard deviation across trials always lower than 2°. This small standard deviation was found also in the overweight subject, for whom it is usually challenging to obtain reliable gait measurements. In addition, a greater knee angle between the right and left joint center trajectories was found in the overweight subject compared to the normal weight. The promising results of this study suggest that the new parameters introduced might be suitable to assess gait of subjects with different anthropometric characteristics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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