Validation of the Actibelt® speed measurement in patients with dizziness and vertigo
1
Deutsches Schwindel- und Gleichgewichtszentrum, DSGZ LMU München, Campus Großhadern, LMU, Munich, Germany
2
Sylvia Lawry Centre e.V. – The Human Motion Institute, Munich, Germany
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Bioinformatics, Anatomy and Physiology, Neurology
- Keywords
- Sensory ataxia, Accelerometry, Actibelt, GAITRite, Bilateral vestibulopathy, Gait disorders
- Copyright
- © 2016 Rampmaier et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Validation of the Actibelt® speed measurement in patients with dizziness and vertigo. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2545v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2545v1
Abstract
Walking velocity is an important control variable in gait disorders due to sensory or cerebellar disfunction. Non-preferred walking speeds are closely linked to a higher risk of falls. A compensation strategy of patients to avoid these speed sectors can be assumed. So far speed measurements are only possible in a laboratory environment. Actibelt® is a promising tool that allows speed estimation based on accelerometer data. The used algorithms have not been validated for patients with sensory or cerebellar disorders.
Author Comment
This presentation was a contribution to the 3th Winter Symposium of the "Human Motion Project" and is part of "PeerJ Human Motion Project Collection".