Point-of-care motion capture and biomechanical assessment improve clinical utility of dynamic balance testing for lower extremity osteoarthritis

ABSTRACT: Musculoskeletal conditions impede patient biomechanical function. However, clinicians rely on subjective functional assessments with poor test characteristics for biomechanical outcomes because more advanced assessments are impractical in the ambulatory care setting. Using markerless motion capture (MMC) in clinic to record time-series joint position data, we implemented a spatiotemporal assessment of patient kinematics during lower extremity functional testing to evaluate whether kinematic models could identify disease states beyond conventional clinical scoring. 213 trials of the star excursion balance test (SEBT) were recorded by 36 subjects during routine ambulatory clinic visits using both MMC technology and conventional clinician scoring. Conventional clinical scoring failed to disti

SUBMITTER: Halvorson R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9931224 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature