Toward Improving the Prediction of Functional Ambulation After Spinal Cord Injury Through the Inclusion of Limb Accelerations During Sleep and Personal Factors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if functional measures of ambulation can be accurately classified using clinical measures; demographics; personal, psychosocial, and environmental factors; and limb accelerations (LAs) obtained during sleep among individuals with chronic, motor incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) in an effort to guide future, longitudinal predictions models.

Design

Cross-sectional, 1-5 days of data collection.

Setting

Community-based data collection.

Participants

Adults with chronic (>1 year), motor incomplete SCI (N=27).

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main outcome measures

Ambulatory ability based on the 10-m walk test (10MWT) or 6-minute walk test (6MWT) categorized as nonambulatory, household ambulator (0.01-0.44 m/s, 1-204 m), or communit

SUBMITTER: Rigot SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8596977 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature