A single task assessment system of upper-limb motor function after stroke
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Nowadays, stroke is a leading cause of disability in adults. Assessment of motor performance has played an important role in rehabilitation for post stroke patients. Therefore, it is quite important to develop an automatic assessment system of motor function.
OBJECTIVE:
The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of the single task upper-limb movements quantitatively among stroke survivors.
METHODS:
Eleven normal subjects and thirty-five subjects with stroke were involved in this study. The subjects, who were wearing the micro-sensor motion capture system, performed shoulder flexion in a sitting position. The system recorded three-dimensional kinematics data of limb movements in quaternions. By extracting the significant features from these data, we built a linear model to acquire the functional assessment score (FAS).
RESULTS:
All of the kinematics features have a significant statistical difference (P < 0.05) between patients and healthy people, while the feature values have a high correlation with Fugl-Meyer (FM) scores (r > 0.5, p < 0.05), indicating that these features are able to reflect the level of motion impairment. Furthermore, most samples of the linear model locate in the confidence interval after regression, with the residual approaching a normal distribution. These results show that the FAS is capable of motor function assessment for stroke survivors.
CONCLUSION:
These findings represent an important step towards a system that can be utilized for precise single task motor evaluation after stroke, applicable to clinical research and as a tool for rehabilitation.
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