Kinect-based assessment of proximal arm non-use after a stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background

After a stroke, during seated reaching with their paretic upper limb, many patients spontaneously replace the use of their arm by trunk compensation movements, even though they are able to use their arm when forced to do so. We previously quantified this proximal arm non-use (PANU) with a motion capture system (Zebris, CMS20s). The aim of this study was to validate a low-cost Microsoft Kinect-based system against the CMS20s reference system to diagnose PANU.

Methods

In 19 hemiparetic stroke individuals, the PANU score, reach length, trunk length, and proximal arm use (PAU) were measured during seated reaching simultaneously by the Kinect (v2) and the CMS20s over two testing sessions separated by two hours.

Results

Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) a

SUBMITTER: Bakhti KKA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6236999 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature