Journal
MEASUREMENT
Volume 195, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2022.111076
Keywords
Structural vibrations; APDM; Stopwatch; Gait speed; Cadence; Gait cycle duration; Step duration; Stride length
Funding
- National Institute On Aging of the National Institutes of Health [R41AG059475]
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Accurately measuring gait parameters is crucial for evaluating older adults' disabilities, disease progression, and falls. Traditional methods are limited to measuring gait speed, while using floor vibrations allows for more accurate assessment of gait parameters.
Measuring gait parameters (e.g. speed, cadence, step duration) accurately is invaluable for evaluation during treatment of older adults who struggle with disability onset, disease progression, balance, and injurious falls. Traditionally stopwatches or timing gates are used to measure gait speed in clinical settings, and these are limited to measuring gait speed. Other wearable and non-wearable technologies offer the ability to measure additional gait parameters though patients are known to walk differently with the devices and even tend to slow down before engaging with a non-wearable such as a floor mat. Floor vibrations are a promising option to measuring gait parameters while not being intrusive and not requiring line-of-sight to the patient for measurements. This paper presents methodology for extracting gait parameters using vibrations with comparisons to APDM Wearable Technologies Mobility Lab sensors and stopwatch measurements. Performance is examined across 97 participants for self-selected speed forward, full speed forward, and backwards walks at three different testing sites for a total of 1039 walks. Gait speed vibrations measurements demonstrated excellent reliability with APDM Mobility Lab (ICC: 0.98; 99% CI: 0.01 +/- 0.01 m/s) and stopwatch (ICC: 0.97; 99% CI: -0.01 +/- 0.01 m/s) measurements. Similar excellent results are reported for cadence, gait cycle duration, step duration, and stride length parameters.
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