Reliability of inertial sensors in the assessment of patients with vestibular disorders: a feasibility study
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- 作者：Sathish K. Sankarpandi ; Alice J. Baldwin ; Jaydip Ray…
- 关键词：Vestibular disorders ; Reliability ; OPAL inertial sensors ; TUG and sway tests
- 刊名：BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：496KB
- 刊物主题：Otorhinolaryngology; Internal Medicine; Head and Neck Surgery;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1472-6815
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundVestibular disorders affect an individual’s stability, balance, and gait and predispose them to falls. Traditional laboratory-based semi-objective vestibular assessments are intrusive and cumbersome provide little information about their functional ability. Commercially available wearable inertial sensors allow us to make this real life assessments objective, with a detailed view of their functional abilities. Timed Up and Go (TUG) and Postural Sway tests are commonly used tests for gait and balance assessments. Our aim was to assess the feasibility, test-retest reliability and ability to classify fall status in individuals with vestibular disorders using parameters derived from the commercially available wearable system (inertial sensors and the Mobility Lab Software, APDM, Inc.).