Subramaniam S, Wang S, Bhatt T. Effect of a customized safety harness on movement kinematics in a dance-based exergaming among people with chronic stroke.
Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 2024;
111:106139. [PMID:
38039953 DOI:
10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2023.106139]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
Dance-based exergaming has exhibited efficacy in people with chronic stroke, it is beneficial to advance towards independent self-training to increase long-term compliance, and cost effectiveness through safety harness devices. Thus, the purpose of the study was to investigate people with chronic stroke's dance-movement kinematics to different types of assistance, namely no assistance, safety harness assistance, and contact guard assistance with gait belt.
METHODS
Community-dwelling people with chronic stroke (n = 10) participated in the study. Seven inertial sensors were used to capture their dance movements with three songs slow, medium, and fast pace. Three trials were recorded for each dance and the mean values of variables were used for analysis. A customized MATLAB code generated joint angle excursions (difference between the maximum and minimum angle peaks) of the hip, knee, and ankle in the sagittal plane.
FINDINGS
The results exhibited decreased joint angle excursions in no assistance condition in comparison to safety harness assistance and contact guard assistance conditions for all song paces (p < 0.05). The safety harness, and contact guard assistance condition exhibited similar levels of joint angle excursions for the all the conditions, except significantly higher hip (slow, and fast pace) (p < 0.05), and ankle (medium pace) (p < 0.05) joint angle excursions in contact guard assistance in comparison to safety harness assistance.
INTERPRETATION
The study represents the joint angle excursions that are influenced by different conditions in chronic stroke. Future studies, should evaluate feasibility of safety harness augmented dance-based exergaming in home-setting among chronic stroke.
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