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
File Format
File Size
594 Kb
Language
English
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Repository Citation
Lajevardi-Khosh, A.,
Tresco, B.,
Stuart, A.,
Sinclair, S.,
Ackerman, M.,
Kubiak, E.,
Petelenz, T.,
Hitchcock, R.
(2018).
Development of a Step Counting Algorithm Using the Ambulatory Tibia Load Analysis System for Tibia Fracture Patients.
Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, 5
1-11.
SAGE.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055668318804974