scholarly journals Motion Analysis Tool for Diagnosis of Orthopedic Disorders

Author(s):  
Pavel Jičinský ◽  
Jan Mareš
Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 1660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunru Ma ◽  
Kumar Mithraratne ◽  
Nichola Wilson ◽  
Xiangbin Wang ◽  
Ye Ma ◽  
...  

The aim of this study is to evaluate if Kinect is a valid and reliable clinical gait analysis tool for children with cerebral palsy (CP), and whether linear regression and long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network methods can improve its performance. A gait analysis was conducted on ten children with CP, on two occasions. Lower limb joint kinematics computed from the Kinect and a traditional marker-based Motion Analysis system were investigated by calculating the root mean square errors (RMSE), the coefficients of multiple correlation (CMC), and the intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC2,k). Results showed that the Kinect-based kinematics had an overall modest to poor correlation (CMC—less than 0.001 to 0.70) and an angle pattern similarity with Motion Analysis. After the calibration, RMSE on every degree of freedom decreased. The two calibration methods indicated similar levels of improvement in hip sagittal (CMC—0.81 ± 0.10 vs. 0.75 ± 0.22)/frontal (CMC—0.41 ± 0.35 vs. 0.42 ± 0.37) and knee sagittal kinematics (CMC—0.85±0.07 vs. 0.87 ± 0.12). The hip sagittal (CMC—0.97±0.05) and knee sagittal (CMC—0.88 ± 0.12) angle patterns showed a very good agreement over two days. Modest to excellent reliability (ICC2,k—0.45 to 0.93) for most parameters renders it feasible for observing ongoing changes in gait kinematics.


2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Rivilla-García ◽  
Luis Carlos Calvo ◽  
Sergio Jiménez-Rubio ◽  
Victor Paredes-Hernández ◽  
Alejandro Muñoz ◽  
...  

AbstractThe objective of this study was to carry out a detailed quantitative analysis of the very high intensity runs during actual play in the 2013-2014 Spanish First Division, at a general level and according to the specific playing position and half. 380 matches of the Spanish First Division in the 2013 - 2014 season were monitored using the Mediacoach video motion analysis tool. Total distance, very high intensity (above 21 km/h) running distance and the number of runs at very high intensity of 230 players from 20 teams in the Spanish First Division were analysed. The main findings of the study were that the performance indicators at very high intensities decreased from the first half to the second half for all outfield players (covered distance: 4694 ± 538 m vs 4485 ± 437 m, sprint distance: 256 ± 72 m vs 239 ± 67 m, number of sprints: 14.3 ± 3.5 vs 13.2 ± 3.1), except the central defenders (sprint distance: 166 ± 37 vs 166 ± 40 m, number of sprints: 10.0 ± 2.1 vs 9.8 ± 3.8). Secondly, although wide defenders (9759 ± 665 m) and central midfielders (9776 ± 942 m) covered the most distance during matches, it were the wide defenders (30 ± 5), centre-forwards (28 ± 7) and wide midfielders (31 ± 8) who performed the most runs at very high intensity. Consequently, the distance they ran at these very high intensity runs followed the same pattern. Such results enable general and specific profiles by demarcation to be established based on the demands of the game at high-level competitive play.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (08) ◽  
pp. 1940059
Author(s):  
WOO SUK CHONG ◽  
MI YEON SHIN ◽  
CHANG HO YU

In this study, a multidirectional posture and motion evaluation tool system using a camera-based vision system was developed. By installing a camera on the top, back, left, and front of the system, kinematical information of the participant was collected and analyzed on the sagittal, coronal, and transverse planes. A dedicated color light-emitting diode (LED) marker was developed for increasing recognition rate of marker. Based on LabVIEW, images collected from four cameras were printed on one screen, and the detection angle of each marker was calculated using the cosine second law. To evaluate the performance of this system, a motion analysis experiment was performed on 20 office workers in Jeonju area. The reliability was measured using POFOMO, Dartfish and the results were compared. The comparison results indicate that the concurrent validities of the two results for the knee angle, left shoulder, and right shoulder were highly correlated as [Formula: see text], 0.988, and 0.991, respectively. Because the POFOMO image analysis tool in the present system reduces the analysis time and involves a simpler measurement procedure than that of Dartfish, this system can be used as an effective device for measuring the posture alignment of the human body.


Author(s):  
Melen McBride

Ethnogeriatrics is an evolving specialty in geriatric care that focuses on the health and aging issues in the context of culture for older adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This article is an introduction to ethnogeriatrics for healthcare professionals including speech-language pathologists (SLPs). This article focuses on significant factors that contributed to the development of ethnogeriatrics, definitions of some key concepts in ethnogeriatrics, introduces cohort analysis as a teaching and clinical tool, and presents applications for speech-language pathology with recommendations for use of cohort analysis in practice, teaching, and research activities.


2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-54
Author(s):  
Kerry Callahan Mandulak

Spectral moment analysis (SMA) is an acoustic analysis tool that shows promise for enhancing our understanding of normal and disordered speech production. It can augment auditory-perceptual analysis used to investigate differences across speakers and groups and can provide unique information regarding specific aspects of the speech signal. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the utility of SMA as a clinical measure for both clinical speech production assessment and research applications documenting speech outcome measurements. Although acoustic analysis has become more readily available and accessible, clinicians need training with, and exposure to, acoustic analysis methods in order to integrate them into traditional methods used to assess speech production.


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