TY - JOUR
T1 - Postural strategies assessed with inertial sensors in healthy and parkinsonian subjects
AU - Baston, Chiara
AU - Mancini, Martina
AU - Schoneburg, Bernadette
AU - Horak, Fay
AU - Rocchi, Laura
N1 - Funding Information:
The research leading to these results has been partially supported by the European Union – Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 288516 (CuPiD project) and by NIA Merit Award (AG006457).
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - The present study introduces a novel instrumented method to characterize postural movement strategies to maintain balance during stance (ankle and hip strategy), by means of inertial sensors, positioned on the legs and on the trunk.We evaluated postural strategies in subjects with 2 types of Parkinsonism: idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), and in age-matched control subjects standing under perturbed conditions implemented by the Sensory Organization Test (SOT). Coordination between the upper and lower segments of the body during postural sway was measured using a covariance index over time, by a sliding-window algorithm. Afterwards, a postural strategy index was computed. We also measured the amount of postural sway, as adjunctive information to characterize balance, by the root mean square of the horizontal trunk acceleration signal (RMS). Results: showed that control subjects were able to change their postural strategy, whilst PSP and PD subjects persisted in use of an ankle strategy in all conditions. PD subjects had RMS values similar to control subjects even without changing postural strategy appropriately, whereas PSP subjects showed much larger RMS values than controls, resulting in several falls during the most challenging SOT conditions (5 and 6). Results are in accordance with the corresponding clinical literature describing postural behavior in the same kind of subjects.The proposed strategy index, based on the use of inertial sensors on the upper and lower body segments, is a promising and unobtrusive tool to characterize postural strategies performed to attain balance.
AB - The present study introduces a novel instrumented method to characterize postural movement strategies to maintain balance during stance (ankle and hip strategy), by means of inertial sensors, positioned on the legs and on the trunk.We evaluated postural strategies in subjects with 2 types of Parkinsonism: idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), and in age-matched control subjects standing under perturbed conditions implemented by the Sensory Organization Test (SOT). Coordination between the upper and lower segments of the body during postural sway was measured using a covariance index over time, by a sliding-window algorithm. Afterwards, a postural strategy index was computed. We also measured the amount of postural sway, as adjunctive information to characterize balance, by the root mean square of the horizontal trunk acceleration signal (RMS). Results: showed that control subjects were able to change their postural strategy, whilst PSP and PD subjects persisted in use of an ankle strategy in all conditions. PD subjects had RMS values similar to control subjects even without changing postural strategy appropriately, whereas PSP subjects showed much larger RMS values than controls, resulting in several falls during the most challenging SOT conditions (5 and 6). Results are in accordance with the corresponding clinical literature describing postural behavior in the same kind of subjects.The proposed strategy index, based on the use of inertial sensors on the upper and lower body segments, is a promising and unobtrusive tool to characterize postural strategies performed to attain balance.
KW - Covariance analysis
KW - Dynamic posture
KW - Parkinson's disease
KW - Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
KW - Sensory Organization Test
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U2 - 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2014.02.012
DO - 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2014.02.012
M3 - Article
C2 - 24656713
AN - SCOPUS:84900987044
SN - 0966-6362
VL - 40
SP - 70
EP - 75
JO - Gait and Posture
JF - Gait and Posture
IS - 1
ER -