Upper limb functional assessment of children with cerebral palsy using a sorting box
| Autor: | Alejandro Melendez-Calderon, Demetrio Villanueva-Ayala, Juan Carlos Pérez-Moreno, Yannick Quijano-Gonzalez, Etienne Burdet, J. E. Chong-Quero |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Wrist Joint medicine.medical_specialty Computer science Wrist Cerebral palsy Physical medicine and rehabilitation Activities of Daily Living medicine Humans Computer vision Child Physical Therapy Modalities Problem Solving Smoothness (probability theory) business.industry Cerebral Palsy Sorting medicine.disease Jerk medicine.anatomical_structure Arm Upper limb Female Artificial intelligence business |
| Zdroj: | EMBC |
| ISSN: | 2694-0604 |
| Popis: | We investigated the use of a sorting box to obtain a quantitative assessment of upper limb motor function in children with cerebral palsy. In our study, children with and without cerebral palsy placed and removed geometrical objects of a sorting-box while their wrist position was monitored by a camera-based, motion-tracking system. We analyzed three different smoothness metrics (logarithmic dimensionless jerk, spectral arc-length and number of peaks) together with time to task completion. Our results suggest that smoothness metrics are an effective tool to distinguish between impaired and non-impaired subjects, as well as to quantify differences between the affected and less-affected sides in children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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