Comparison of professional and everyday wearable technology at different body positions in terms of recording gait perturbations.

ABSTRACT: Falls are a significant health problem in older people, so preventing them is essential. Since falls are often a consequence of improper reaction to gait disturbances, such as slips and trips, their detection is gaining attention in research. However there are no studies to date that investigated perturbation detection, using everyday wearable devices like hearing aids or smartphones at different body positions. Sixty-six study participants were perturbed on a split-belt treadmill while recording data with hearing aids, smartphones, and professional inertial measurement units (IMUs) at various positions (left/right ear, jacket pocket, shoulder bag, pants pocket, left/right foot, left/right wrist, lumbar, sternum). The data were visually inspected and median maximum cross-correlations were

SUBMITTER: Feld L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11364241 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature