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Use of 'wearables' to assess the Up-on-the-toes test
| العنوان: | Use of 'wearables' to assess the Up-on-the-toes test |
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| المؤلفون: | Zahid, Sarah A., Celik, Y., Godfrey, A., Buckley, John |
| Publication Status: | Published version |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | Bradford Scholars |
| Original Material: | Zahid SA, Celik Y, Godfrey A et al (2022) Use of ‘wearables’ to assess the Up-on-the-toes test. Journal of Biomechanics. 143: 111272. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Inertial measurement units, Ankle function, Up-on-the-toes, Plantar-flexion strength |
| الوصف: | Yes The mechanical output at the ankle provides key contribution to everyday activities, particularly step/stair ascent and descent. Age-related decline in ankle functioning can lead to an increased risk of falls on steps and stairs. The rising up-on-the-toes (UTT) 30-second test (UTT-30) is used in the clinical assessment of ankle muscle strength/function and endurance; the main outcome being how many repetitive UTT movements are completed. This preliminary study describes how inertial measurement units (IMUs) can be used to assess the UTT-30. Twenty adults (26.2 ± 7.7 years) performed a UTT-30 at a comfortable speed, with IMUs attached to the dorsal aspect of each foot. Use of IMUs’ angular velocity signal to detect the peak plantarflexion angular velocity (p-fAngVelpeak) associated with each repeated UTT movement indicated the number of UTT movements attempted by each participant. Any UTT movements that were performed with a p-fAngVelpeak 2SD below the mean were deemed to have not been completed over a sufficiently ‘full’ range. Findings highlight that use of IMUs can provide valid assessment of the UTT 30-second test. Their use detected the same number of attempted UTT movements as that observed by a researcher (average difference, -0.1 CI, -0.2 – 0.1), and on average 97.6 ± 3.1% of these movements were deemed to have been completed ‘fully’. We discuss the limitations of our approach for identifying the movements not completed fully, and how assessing the consistency in the magnitude of the repeated p-fAngVelpeak could be undertaken and what this would indicate about UTT-30 performance. |
| Original Identifier: | oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/19139 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2022.111272 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10454/19139 |
| Rights: | (c) 2022 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons CC-BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) CC-BY |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsndl.BRADFORD.oai.bradscholars.brad.ac.uk.10454.19139 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2022.111272 |
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