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Dynamic Balance Measurement and Quantitative Assessment Using Wearable Plantar-Pressure Insoles in a Pose-Sensed Virtual Environment
The center of plantar pressure (COP) reflects the dynamic balance of subjects to a certain extent. In this study, wearable pressure insoles are designed, body pose measure is detected by the Kinect sensor, and a balance evaluation system is formulated. With the designed games for the interactive act...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6308589/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30513590 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18124193 |
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author | Lou, Cunguang Pang, Chenyao Jing, Congrui Wang, Shuo He, Xufeng Liu, Xiaoguang Huang, Lei Lin, Feng Liu, Xiuling Wang, Hongrui |
author_facet | Lou, Cunguang Pang, Chenyao Jing, Congrui Wang, Shuo He, Xufeng Liu, Xiaoguang Huang, Lei Lin, Feng Liu, Xiuling Wang, Hongrui |
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description | The center of plantar pressure (COP) reflects the dynamic balance of subjects to a certain extent. In this study, wearable pressure insoles are designed, body pose measure is detected by the Kinect sensor, and a balance evaluation system is formulated. With the designed games for the interactive actions, the Kinect sensor reads the skeletal poses to judge whether the desired action is performed, and the pressure insoles simultaneously collect the plantar pressure data. The COP displacement and its speed are calculated to determine the body sway and the ability of balance control. Significant differences in the dispersion of the COP distribution of the 12 subjects have been obtained, indicating different balancing abilities of the examined subjects. A novel assessment process is also proposed in the paper, in which a correlation analysis is made between the de facto sit-to-stand (STS) test and the proposed method; the Pearson and Spearman correlations are also conducted, which reveal a significant positive correlation. Finally, four undergraduate volunteers with a right leg sports injury participate in the experiments. The experimental results show that the normal side and abnormal side have significantly different characters, suggesting that our method is effective and robust for balance measurements. |
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spelling | pubmed-63085892019-01-04 Dynamic Balance Measurement and Quantitative Assessment Using Wearable Plantar-Pressure Insoles in a Pose-Sensed Virtual Environment Lou, Cunguang Pang, Chenyao Jing, Congrui Wang, Shuo He, Xufeng Liu, Xiaoguang Huang, Lei Lin, Feng Liu, Xiuling Wang, Hongrui Sensors (Basel) Article The center of plantar pressure (COP) reflects the dynamic balance of subjects to a certain extent. In this study, wearable pressure insoles are designed, body pose measure is detected by the Kinect sensor, and a balance evaluation system is formulated. With the designed games for the interactive actions, the Kinect sensor reads the skeletal poses to judge whether the desired action is performed, and the pressure insoles simultaneously collect the plantar pressure data. The COP displacement and its speed are calculated to determine the body sway and the ability of balance control. Significant differences in the dispersion of the COP distribution of the 12 subjects have been obtained, indicating different balancing abilities of the examined subjects. A novel assessment process is also proposed in the paper, in which a correlation analysis is made between the de facto sit-to-stand (STS) test and the proposed method; the Pearson and Spearman correlations are also conducted, which reveal a significant positive correlation. Finally, four undergraduate volunteers with a right leg sports injury participate in the experiments. The experimental results show that the normal side and abnormal side have significantly different characters, suggesting that our method is effective and robust for balance measurements. MDPI 2018-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6308589/ /pubmed/30513590 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18124193 Text en © 2018 by the authors. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lou, Cunguang Pang, Chenyao Jing, Congrui Wang, Shuo He, Xufeng Liu, Xiaoguang Huang, Lei Lin, Feng Liu, Xiuling Wang, Hongrui Dynamic Balance Measurement and Quantitative Assessment Using Wearable Plantar-Pressure Insoles in a Pose-Sensed Virtual Environment |
title | Dynamic Balance Measurement and Quantitative Assessment Using Wearable Plantar-Pressure Insoles in a Pose-Sensed Virtual Environment |
title_full | Dynamic Balance Measurement and Quantitative Assessment Using Wearable Plantar-Pressure Insoles in a Pose-Sensed Virtual Environment |
title_fullStr | Dynamic Balance Measurement and Quantitative Assessment Using Wearable Plantar-Pressure Insoles in a Pose-Sensed Virtual Environment |
title_full_unstemmed | Dynamic Balance Measurement and Quantitative Assessment Using Wearable Plantar-Pressure Insoles in a Pose-Sensed Virtual Environment |
title_short | Dynamic Balance Measurement and Quantitative Assessment Using Wearable Plantar-Pressure Insoles in a Pose-Sensed Virtual Environment |
title_sort | dynamic balance measurement and quantitative assessment using wearable plantar-pressure insoles in a pose-sensed virtual environment |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6308589/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30513590 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18124193 |
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