Electronically augmented gait abnormality assessment following lower extremity trauma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Objective evaluation of patient outcomes has become an essential component of patient management. Along with patient-reported outcomes, performance-based measures (PBMs) such as gait analysis are an important part of this evaluation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity of utilizing a wearable inertial measurement unit (IMU) in an outpatient clinic setting to assess its ability to provide clinically relevant data in patients with altered gait resulting from lower extremity trauma.

Methods

Five orthopaedic trauma patients with varying degrees of gait pathologies were compared to 5 healthy control subjects. Kinematic data were simultaneously recorded by the IMU and a gold standard Vicon video motion analysis system (Vicon Motion Systems Ltd, Oxford

SUBMITTER: Swart E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7997086 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature