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Development of a Post-stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation Wearable Sensor for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Validation Study
The development of context-appropriate sensor technologies could alleviate the significant burden of stroke in Sub-Saharan African rehabilitation clinicians and health care facilities. However, many commercially available wearable sensors are beyond the financial capabilities of the majority of Afri...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6861447/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31781556 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00322 |
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author | Hughes, Charmayne M. L. Louie, Alexander Sun, Selena Gordon-Murer, Chloe Belay, Gashaw Jember Baye, Moges Zhang, Xiaorong |
author_facet | Hughes, Charmayne M. L. Louie, Alexander Sun, Selena Gordon-Murer, Chloe Belay, Gashaw Jember Baye, Moges Zhang, Xiaorong |
author_sort | Hughes, Charmayne M. L. |
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description | The development of context-appropriate sensor technologies could alleviate the significant burden of stroke in Sub-Saharan African rehabilitation clinicians and health care facilities. However, many commercially available wearable sensors are beyond the financial capabilities of the majority of African persons. In this study, we evaluated the concurrent validity of a low-cost wearable sensor (i.e., the outREACH sensor) to measure upper limb movement kinematics of 31 healthy persons, using an 8-camera Vicon motion capture system as the reference standard. The outREACH sensor showed high correlation (r range: 0.808–0.990) and agreement (mean difference range: −1.60 to 1.10) with the reference system regardless of task or kinematic parameter. Moreover, Bland-Altman analyses indicated that there were no significant systematic errors present. This study indicates that upper limb movement kinematics can be accurately measured using the outREACH sensor, and have the potential to enhance stroke evaluation and rehabilitation in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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spelling | pubmed-68614472019-11-28 Development of a Post-stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation Wearable Sensor for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Validation Study Hughes, Charmayne M. L. Louie, Alexander Sun, Selena Gordon-Murer, Chloe Belay, Gashaw Jember Baye, Moges Zhang, Xiaorong Front Bioeng Biotechnol Bioengineering and Biotechnology The development of context-appropriate sensor technologies could alleviate the significant burden of stroke in Sub-Saharan African rehabilitation clinicians and health care facilities. However, many commercially available wearable sensors are beyond the financial capabilities of the majority of African persons. In this study, we evaluated the concurrent validity of a low-cost wearable sensor (i.e., the outREACH sensor) to measure upper limb movement kinematics of 31 healthy persons, using an 8-camera Vicon motion capture system as the reference standard. The outREACH sensor showed high correlation (r range: 0.808–0.990) and agreement (mean difference range: −1.60 to 1.10) with the reference system regardless of task or kinematic parameter. Moreover, Bland-Altman analyses indicated that there were no significant systematic errors present. This study indicates that upper limb movement kinematics can be accurately measured using the outREACH sensor, and have the potential to enhance stroke evaluation and rehabilitation in sub-Saharan Africa. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6861447/ /pubmed/31781556 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00322 Text en Copyright © 2019 Hughes, Louie, Sun, Gordon-Murer, Belay, Baye and Zhang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Bioengineering and Biotechnology Hughes, Charmayne M. L. Louie, Alexander Sun, Selena Gordon-Murer, Chloe Belay, Gashaw Jember Baye, Moges Zhang, Xiaorong Development of a Post-stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation Wearable Sensor for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Validation Study |
title | Development of a Post-stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation Wearable Sensor for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Validation Study |
title_full | Development of a Post-stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation Wearable Sensor for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Validation Study |
title_fullStr | Development of a Post-stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation Wearable Sensor for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Validation Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Development of a Post-stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation Wearable Sensor for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Validation Study |
title_short | Development of a Post-stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation Wearable Sensor for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Validation Study |
title_sort | development of a post-stroke upper limb rehabilitation wearable sensor for use in sub-saharan africa: a pilot validation study |
topic | Bioengineering and Biotechnology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6861447/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31781556 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00322 |
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