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Exploring Teslasuit’s Potential in Detecting Sequential Slip-Induced Kinematic Changes among Healthy Young Adults

This study aimed to assess whether the Teslasuit, a wearable motion-sensing technology, could detect subtle changes in gait following slip perturbations comparable to an infrared motion capture system. A total of 12 participants wore Teslasuits equipped with inertial measurement units (IMUs) and ref...

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Autores principales: Hepp, Jacob, Shiraishi, Michael, Tran, Michelle, Henson, Emmy, Ananthanarayanan, Mira, Soangra, Rahul
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10383312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37514552
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23146258
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author Hepp, Jacob
Shiraishi, Michael
Tran, Michelle
Henson, Emmy
Ananthanarayanan, Mira
Soangra, Rahul
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Shiraishi, Michael
Tran, Michelle
Henson, Emmy
Ananthanarayanan, Mira
Soangra, Rahul
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description This study aimed to assess whether the Teslasuit, a wearable motion-sensing technology, could detect subtle changes in gait following slip perturbations comparable to an infrared motion capture system. A total of 12 participants wore Teslasuits equipped with inertial measurement units (IMUs) and reflective markers. The experiments were conducted using the Motek GRAIL system, which allowed for accurate timing of slip perturbations during heel strikes. The data from Teslasuit and camera systems were analyzed using statistical parameter mapping (SPM) to compare gait patterns from the two systems and before and after slip. We found significant changes in ankle angles and moments before and after slip perturbations. We also found that step width significantly increased after slip perturbations (p = 0.03) and total double support time significantly decreased after slip (p = 0.01). However, we found that initial double support time significantly increased after slip (p = 0.01). However, there were no significant differences observed between the Teslasuit and motion capture systems in terms of kinematic curves for ankle, knee, and hip movements. The Teslasuit showed promise as an alternative to camera-based motion capture systems for assessing ankle, knee, and hip kinematics during slips. However, some limitations were noted, including kinematics magnitude differences between the two systems. The findings of this study contribute to the understanding of gait adaptations due to sequential slips and potential use of Teslasuit for fall prevention strategies, such as perturbation training.
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spelling pubmed-103833122023-07-30 Exploring Teslasuit’s Potential in Detecting Sequential Slip-Induced Kinematic Changes among Healthy Young Adults Hepp, Jacob Shiraishi, Michael Tran, Michelle Henson, Emmy Ananthanarayanan, Mira Soangra, Rahul Sensors (Basel) Article This study aimed to assess whether the Teslasuit, a wearable motion-sensing technology, could detect subtle changes in gait following slip perturbations comparable to an infrared motion capture system. A total of 12 participants wore Teslasuits equipped with inertial measurement units (IMUs) and reflective markers. The experiments were conducted using the Motek GRAIL system, which allowed for accurate timing of slip perturbations during heel strikes. The data from Teslasuit and camera systems were analyzed using statistical parameter mapping (SPM) to compare gait patterns from the two systems and before and after slip. We found significant changes in ankle angles and moments before and after slip perturbations. We also found that step width significantly increased after slip perturbations (p = 0.03) and total double support time significantly decreased after slip (p = 0.01). However, we found that initial double support time significantly increased after slip (p = 0.01). However, there were no significant differences observed between the Teslasuit and motion capture systems in terms of kinematic curves for ankle, knee, and hip movements. The Teslasuit showed promise as an alternative to camera-based motion capture systems for assessing ankle, knee, and hip kinematics during slips. However, some limitations were noted, including kinematics magnitude differences between the two systems. The findings of this study contribute to the understanding of gait adaptations due to sequential slips and potential use of Teslasuit for fall prevention strategies, such as perturbation training. MDPI 2023-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10383312/ /pubmed/37514552 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23146258 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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