title: Smart phone as a tool for measuring anticipatory postural adjustments in healthy subjects, a step toward more personalized healthcare.
abstract: We present a study on using a smart phone as a tool to evaluate anticipatory postural adjustments (APA) before the beginning of normal gait in healthy subjects. The results show a significantly lower amplitude of anticipatory postural adjustments in the mediolateral axis (ML) when subjects used the non-dominant leg for the first step compared with the amplitude when using the dominant leg. The use of smart phones as a tool for measuring APA enables more personalized and active healthcare for the population without the necessity of their buying or carrying other devices.
authors.affiliation: Chiba university, 263-8500, Japan. rigo@graduate.chiba-u.jp
authors.forename: Martinez M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Rigoberto
authors.forename: Tamura
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toshiyo
authors.forename: Sekine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Masaki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D040421:Cell Phone; D003020:Clothing; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D005260:Female; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004856:Postural Balance / Q000502:physiology*; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*