title: Validation of a patient activity monitor to quantify ambulatory activity in an amputee population.
abstract: The ability to objectively measure an amputee's walking activity over prolonged periods can provide clinicians with a useful means of evaluating their patients' outcomes. The present study aimed to validate the temporospatial data output from a commercially available ambulatory activity monitor (PAM, Ossur) fitted to trans-tibial and trans-femoral amputees, against data that was simultaneously captured from a three dimensional motion analysis system (Qualisys Medical AB, Gothenburg, Sweden). Results indicate that the PAM monitor provides accurate measures of temporospatial aspects of amputee gait for walking speeds above 0.75 m/s.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University, Sweden. nerrolyn.ramstrand@hhj.hj.se
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ramstrand
authors.forename: K-A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Nilsson
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000671:Amputation, Surgical / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001186:Artificial Limbs; D005269:Femur; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013977:Tibia; D016138:Walking