Quantification of Movement in Stroke Patients under Free Living Conditions Using Wearable Sensors: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Stroke is a main cause of long-term disability worldwide, placing a large burden on individuals and health care systems. Wearable technology can potentially objectively assess and monitor patients outside clinical environments, enabling a more detailed evaluation of their impairment and allowing individualization of rehabilitation therapies. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of setups used in literature to measure movement of stroke patients under free living conditions using wearable sensors, and to evaluate the relation between such sensor-based outcomes and the level of functioning as assessed by existing clinical evaluation methods. After a systematic search we included 32 articles, totaling 1076 stroke patients from acute to chronic phases and 236 healthy controls. We s

SUBMITTER: Bernaldo de Quiros M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8840016 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature