Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-14-2018

Publication Title

Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering

Publisher

SAGE

Volume

5

First page number:

1

Last page number:

11

Abstract

Introduction: Ambulation can be used to monitor the healing of lower extremity fractures. However, the ambulatory behavior of tibia fracture patients remains unknown due to an inability to continuously quantify ambulation outside of the clinic. The goal of this study was to design and validate an algorithm to assess ambulation in tibia fracture patients using the ambulatory tibial load analysis system during recovery, outside of the clinic. Methods Data were collected from a cyclic tester, 14 healthy volunteers performing a 2-min walk test on the treadmill, and 10 tibia fracture patients who wore the ambulatory tibial load analysis system during recovery. Results The algorithm accurately detected 2000/2000 steps from simulated ambulatory data. (see full text for full abstract)

Keywords

Biomedical devices; Community ambulation; Continuous fracture care; Gait; Patient behaviour monitoring devices; Rehabilitation; Rehabilitation devices; Step activity monitor; Underfoot load monitoring

Disciplines

Rehabilitation and Therapy

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File Size

594 Kb

Language

English

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