Timed Up and Go test and wearable inertial sensor: Combining tool to assess mobility in a child after orthopedic surgery

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a permanent disorder of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, attributed to non-progressive disorders that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain [1,2]. The necessity to increase the specificity and sensitivity of the test for the quantification of age-related performance in mobility, balance and overall function - led to the introduction of wearable and mobile technologies, that associated with validated tests, such as the Timed Up and Go test (TUG), can provide also information about the kinematics of the functional tasks, including accelerations, and angular velocities, and the evaluation separately of each phase of the TUG test [3,4].
Source: Gait and Posture - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Source Type: research