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Center of mass-based posturography for free living environment applications

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CLINICAL BIOMECHANICS
卷 104, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2023.105950

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Posturography; Balance; Out-of-lab applications; Risk-of-falling; Rehabilitation engineering

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Center of mass can serve as an alternative for postural assessment in free living applications, by tracking the movement of the 5th lumbar vertebra as an approximation. It provides an effective way to estimate body balance without the need for plates.
Background: Postural assessment is crucial as risk of falling is a major health problem for the elderly. The most widely used devices are force and balance plates, while center of pressure is the most studied parameter as measure of neuromuscular imbalances of the body sway. In out-of-laboratory conditions, where the use of plates is unattainable, the center of mass can serve as an alternative. This work proposes a center of mass-based pos-turographic measurement for free living applications. Methods: Ten healthy and ten Parkinson's disease individuals (age = 26.1 +/- 1.5, 70.4 +/- 6.2 years, body mass index = 21.7 +/- 2.2, 27.6 +/- 2.8 kg/m2, respectively) participated in the study. A stereophotogrammetric system and a force plate were used to acquire the center of pressure and the 5th lumbar vertebra displacements during the Romberg test. The center of mass was estimated using anthropometric measures. Posturographic parameters were extracted from center of pressure, center of mass and 5th lumbar vertebra trajectories. Normalized root mean squared difference was used as metric to compare the trajectories; Spearman's correlation coefficient was computed among the posturographic parameters. Findings: Low values of the metric indicated a good agreement between 5th lumbar vertebra trajectory and both center of pressure and center of mass trajectories. Statistically significant correlations were found among the postural variables. Interpretation: A method to perform posturography tracking the movement of the 5th lumbar vertebra as an approximation of center of mass has been presented and validated. The method requires the solely kinematic tracking of one anatomical landmark with no need of plates for free living applications.

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