”Gait-&Balance-Box”

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1 Department of Research, SLCMSR e.V. - The Human Motion Institute, Munich, Germany
2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.928v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Evidence Based Medicine, Computational Science
Keywords
Gait, Balance, acceleration, walking test, actibelt, bluetooth
Copyright
© 2015 Daumer et al.
Licence
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Cite this article
Daumer M, Müller K. 2015. ”Gait-&Balance-Box”. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e928v1

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.

Author 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).