Quantification of the relative arm use in patients with hemiparesis using inertial measurement units.
Ann DavidStephenSukumaran ReethaJanetSurekaSankaralingam GayathriSalai Jeyseelan AnnamalaiSelvaraj SamuelkamleshkumarAnju KuruvillaHenry Prakash MagimairajSkm VaradhanSivakumar BalasubramanianPublished in: Journal of rehabilitation and assistive technologies engineering (2021)
The gross movement score has good specificity but low sensitivity in identifying functional activity. The at-home study showed that it is feasible to use two IMU-watches to monitor relative arm use and provided design considerations for improving the assessment method.Clinical trial registry number: CTRI/2018/09/015648.