Does gait bout definition influence the ability to discriminate gait quality between people with and without multiple sclerosis during daily life?

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is currently no consensus about standardized gait bout definitions when passively monitoring walking during normal daily life activities. It is also not known how different definitions of a gait bout in daily life monitoring affects the ability to distinguish pathological gait quality. Specifically, how many seconds of a pause with no walking indicates an end to one gait bout and the start of another bout? In this study, we investigated the effect of 3 gait bout definitions on the discriminative ability to distinguish quality of walking in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) from healthy control subjects (HC) during a week of daily living.

Methods

15 subjects with MS and 16 HC wore instrumented socks on each foot and one Opal sensor over the lower lumbar are

SUBMITTER: Shah VV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7946343 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature