Wearable motion sensors to continuously measure real-world physical activities. 2013

Bruce H Dobkin
Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.

OBJECTIVE Rehabilitation for sensorimotor impairments aims to improve daily activities, walking, exercise, and motor skills. Monitoring of practice and measuring outcomes, however, is usually restricted to laboratory-based procedures and self-reports. Mobile health devices may reverse these confounders of daily care and research trials. RESULTS Wearable, wireless motion sensor data, analyzed by activity pattern-recognition algorithms, can describe the type, quantity, and quality of mobility-related activities in the community. Data transmission from the sensors to a cell phone and the Internet enable continuous monitoring. Remote access to laboratory quality data about walking speed, duration and distance, gait asymmetry and smoothness of movements, as well as cycling, exercise, and skills practice, opens new opportunities to engage patients in progressive, personalized therapies with feedback about the performance. Clinical trial designs will be able to include remote verification of the integrity of complex physical interventions and compliance with practice, as well as capture repeated, ecologically sound, ratio scale outcome measures. CONCLUSIONS Given the progressively falling cost of miniaturized wearable gyroscopes, accelerometers, and other physiologic sensors, as well as inexpensive data transmission, sensing systems may become as ubiquitous as cell phones for healthcare. Neurorehabilitation can develop these mobile health platforms for daily care and clinical trials to improve exercise and fitness, skills learning, and physical functioning.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009043 Motor Activity Body movements of a human or an animal as a behavioral phenomenon. Activities, Motor,Activity, Motor,Motor Activities
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D016138 Walking An activity in which the body advances at a slow to moderate pace by moving the feet in a coordinated fashion. This includes recreational walking, walking for fitness, and competitive race-walking. Ambulation
D017063 Outcome Assessment, Health Care Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure). Assessment, Outcome,Outcome Assessment,Outcome Assessment (Health Care),Outcomes Research,Assessment, Outcomes,Outcome Measures,Outcome Studies,Outcomes Assessment,Assessment, Outcome (Health Care),Assessments, Outcome,Assessments, Outcome (Health Care),Assessments, Outcomes,Measure, Outcome,Measures, Outcome,Outcome Assessments,Outcome Assessments (Health Care),Outcome Measure,Outcome Study,Outcomes Assessments,Research, Outcomes,Studies, Outcome,Study, Outcome
D017216 Telemedicine Delivery of health services via remote telecommunications. This includes interactive consultative and diagnostic services. Tele-Care,Tele-ICU,Tele-Intensive Care,Tele-Referral,Telecare,Virtual Medicine,Mobile Health,Telehealth,eHealth,mHealth,Health, Mobile,Medicine, Virtual,Tele Care,Tele ICU,Tele Intensive Care,Tele Referral,Tele-Referrals
D020233 Gait Disorders, Neurologic Gait abnormalities that are a manifestation of nervous system dysfunction. These conditions may be caused by a wide variety of disorders which affect motor control, sensory feedback, and muscle strength including: CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; or MUSCULAR DISEASES. Ambulation Disorders, Neurologic,Charcot Gait,Charcot's Gait,Duck Gait,Gait Disorder, Sensorimotor,Gait Dysfunction, Neurologic,Gait, Athetotic,Gait, Broadened,Gait, Drop Foot,Gait, Festinating,Gait, Frontal,Gait, Hemiplegic,Gait, Hysterical,Gait, Reeling,Gait, Rigid,Gait, Scissors,Gait, Shuffling,Gait, Spastic,Gait, Stumbling,Gait, Unsteady,Gait, Widebased,Locomotion Disorders, Neurologic,Marche a Petit Pas,Neurologic Ambulation Disorders,Neurologic Locomotion Disorders,Rapid Fatigue of Gait,Sensorimotor Gait Disorder,Ambulation Disorder, Neurologic,Athetotic Gait,Broadened Gait,Charcot Gaits,Charcots Gait,Drop Foot Gait,Festinating Gait,Foot Gait, Drop,Frontal Gait,Gait Disorder, Neurologic,Gait Disorders, Sensorimotor,Gait Dysfunctions, Neurologic,Gait, Charcot,Gait, Charcot's,Gait, Duck,Gaits, Charcot,Hemiplegic Gait,Hysterical Gait,Locomotion Disorder, Neurologic,Neurologic Ambulation Disorder,Neurologic Gait Disorder,Neurologic Gait Disorders,Neurologic Gait Dysfunction,Neurologic Gait Dysfunctions,Neurologic Locomotion Disorder,Reeling Gait,Rigid Gait,Scissors Gait,Sensorimotor Gait Disorders,Shuffling Gait,Shuffling Gaits,Spastic Gait,Stumbling Gait,Unsteady Gait,Widebased Gait

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