Published In
ISBS Conference Proceedings Archive
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2015
Subjects
Parkinson’s disease, Movement disorders, Inertial sensors, Parkinson's disease -- Patients -- Mobility
Abstract
Gait impairment is a hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). The assessment of gait and balance in the clinic may not adequately reflect mobility in daily life. It is often reported that patients with PD walk better when they are examined in an outpatient clinic or in a research laboratory than at home. Continuous monitoring of mobility during spontaneous daily activities may provide clinicians and patients with objective measures of the quality of their mobility. We show that continuous monitoring of spontaneous gait with wearable inertial sensors during daily activities is feasible for patients with PD. We tested 13 patients with PD and 8 healthy controls to evaluate the feasibility of using wearable inertial sensors at home for one week. The inertial system successfully detects walking bouts and provides sixteen objective measures that can characterize gait changes in patients with PD.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19766
Citation Details
El-Gohary, M., Pearson, S., McNames, J., Mancini, M., & Horak, F. (2016, May). Continuous Monitoring of Movement in Patients with Parkinson's Disease Using Inertial Sensors. In ISBS-Conference Proceedings Archive (Vol. 33, No. 1).
Description
Presented at the 33rd International Conference of Biomechanics in Sports, held in Poitiers, France, June 29 – July 03, 2015, and included in its proceedings. Available at https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/cpa/issue/view/ISBS2015.