title: Capturing whole-body mobility of patients with Parkinson disease using inertial motion sensors: expected challenges and rewards.
abstract: While many studies have reported on the use of kinematic analysis on well-controlled, in-laboratory mobility tasks, few studies have examined the challenges of recording dynamic mobility in home environments. This preliminary study evaluated whole body mobility in eleven patients with Parkinson disease (H&Y 2-4). Patients were recorded in their home environment during scripted and non-scripted mobility tasks while wearing a full-body kinematic recording system using 11 inertial motion sensors (IMU). Data were analyzed with principal component analysis (PCA) in order to identify kinematic variables which best represent mobility tasks. Results indicate that there was a large degree of variability within subjects for each task, across tasks for individual subjects, and between scripted and non-scripted tasks. This study underscores the potential benefit of whole body multi-sensor kinematic recordings in understanding the variability in task performance across patients during daily activity which may have a significant impact on rehabilitation assessment and intervention.
authors.forename: Fariborz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rahimi
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Duval
authors.forename: Mandar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jog
authors.forename: Carina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bee
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: South
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jog
authors.forename: Roderick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boissy
mesh_terms: D000054:Acceleration; D056044:Actigraphy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009043:Motor Activity; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000503:physiopathology*