”Gait-&Balance-Box”
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Abstract
The ”Gait-&Balance-Box” suggests a standardization for clinical walk and balance tests with the aim to improve quality, applicability and comparability. Heart of the patient monitoring is the actibeltblue, an autonomous wireless accelerometer that is worn like a belt. The actibelt sends the acceleration data via blue-tooth to a tablet that provides direct analysis of the human motion. The box can be quickly unfolded into a mobile gait lab using 2 light barriers to perform walking test. The acceleration measurement plus the duration for the fixed walking distance are combined to an enhanced 4-meter walk test.
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2015. ”Gait-&Balance-Box”. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e928v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.928v1Author comment
The ”Gait-&Balance-Box” suggests a standardization for clinical walk and balance tests with the aim to improve quality, applicability and comparability. This preprint is part of the PeerJ “Human Motion Project” collection (The 2nd Winter Symposium of the Human Motion Project).
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Competing Interests
Martin Daumer is an Academic Editor for PeerJ and has invented the "free heel running pad". He is also the Director of the Sylvia Lawry Centre for MS Research. He is one of the two managing directors of Trium Analysis Online GmbH, together with Michael Scholz (50% ownership each). Trium is a manufacturer of CTG monitoring systems.
Dr. Daumer has served on the scientific advisory board for the EPOSA study; has received funding for travel from ECTRIMS; serves on the editorial board of MedNous; is co-author with Michael Scholz on patents re: Apparatus for measuring activity (Trium Analysis Online GmbH), method and device for detecting a movement pattern (Trium Analysis Online GmbH), device and method to measure the activity of a person (Trium Analysis Online GmbH), co-Author with Christian Lederer of device and method to determine the fetal heart rate from ultrasound signals (Trium Analysis Online GmbH), author of method and device for detecting drifts, jumps and/or outliers of measurement values, coauthor of patent applications with Michael Scholz of device and method to determine the global alarm state of a patient monitoring system, method of communication of units in a patient monitoring system, and system and method for patient monitoring; serves as a consultant for University of Oxford, Imperial College London, University of Southampton, Charite, Berlin, University of Vienna, Greencoat Ltd, Biopartners, Biogen Idec, Bayer Schering Pharma, Roche, and Novartis; and receives/has received research support from the EU-FP7, BMBF, BWiMi, and Hertie Foundation.
Author Contributions
Martin Daumer conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Karl Müller conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables.
Funding
There was no external funding for this project, but part of the work was supported by students from the TUM Munich in the context of the lecture "clinical applications of computational medicine."
