Can Sit-to-walk Assessment Maximize Instrumented Timed Up & Go Test Output?

Slavka Viteckova, Radim Krupicka, Petr Dusek, Patrik Kutilek, Zoltan Szabo, Evžen Růžička

2019

Abstract

Daily human activities commonly include standing from a seated position. In research this transition is investigated, among others, as a part of a functional Timed Up & Go test. Spatio-temporal parameters are widely used to assess the sit-to-walk transition. Usually, the parameters calculated for the sit-to-walk signal is in its entirety. Another approach primarily splits the transition into phases and then calculates parameters for individual phases separately. The objective of this work is to examine whether splitting the Timed Up & Go test into subphases provides additional value for transition assessment. In order to compare both approaches, we utilized angular rate parameters (duration, peak value, mean, variance) and analyzed their reliability. The reliability proved to be dependent on the subject group and transition phase. In addition, we compared transition parameters from the entire transition and individual phases between the two subject groups. The mean only differentiated between the subject groups in individual phases, but not is entire transition. To summarize, splitting the transition into phases turned out to be beneficial for sit-to-walk transition assessment.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Viteckova S., Krupicka R., Dusek P., Kutilek P., Szabo Z. and Růžička E. (2019). Can Sit-to-walk Assessment Maximize Instrumented Timed Up & Go Test Output?. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 4: BIOSIGNALS; ISBN 978-989-758-353-7, SciTePress, pages 209-213. DOI: 10.5220/0007523902090213

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biosignals19,
author={Slavka Viteckova and Radim Krupicka and Petr Dusek and Patrik Kutilek and Zoltan Szabo and Evžen Růžička},
title={Can Sit-to-walk Assessment Maximize Instrumented Timed Up & Go Test Output?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 4: BIOSIGNALS},
year={2019},
pages={209-213},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007523902090213},
isbn={978-989-758-353-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 4: BIOSIGNALS
TI - Can Sit-to-walk Assessment Maximize Instrumented Timed Up & Go Test Output?
SN - 978-989-758-353-7
AU - Viteckova S.
AU - Krupicka R.
AU - Dusek P.
AU - Kutilek P.
AU - Szabo Z.
AU - Růžička E.
PY - 2019
SP - 209
EP - 213
DO - 10.5220/0007523902090213
PB - SciTePress