Review—Emerging Portable Technologies for Gait Analysis in Neurological Disorders

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Human Neuroscience

Thomas Schauer¹  Matej Skrobot²  Christina Salchow-Hömmen²  Nikolaus Wenger²  Magdalena C. E. Jochner²  Andrea A. Kühn³ 

[1] Control Systems Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Department of Neurology With Experimental Neurology, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Department of Neurology With Experimental Neurology, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany;NeuroCure Clinical Research Centre, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany;German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, DZNE, Berlin, Germany;

关键词: motion tracking;    human kinematics;    locomotion;    postural control;    wearables;    digital image processing;    Parkinson's disease;    multiple sclerosis;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnhum.2022.768575

 received in 2021-08-31, accepted in 2022-01-07,  发布年份 2022

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The understanding of locomotion in neurological disorders requires technologies for quantitative gait analysis. Numerous modalities are available today to objectively capture spatiotemporal gait and postural control features. Nevertheless, many obstacles prevent the application of these technologies to their full potential in neurological research and especially clinical practice. These include the required expert knowledge, time for data collection, and missing standards for data analysis and reporting. Here, we provide a technological review of wearable and vision-based portable motion analysis tools that emerged in the last decade with recent applications in neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease and Multiple Sclerosis. The goal is to enable the reader to understand the available technologies with their individual strengths and limitations in order to make an informed decision for own investigations and clinical applications. We foresee that ongoing developments toward user-friendly automated devices will allow for closed-loop applications, long-term monitoring, and telemedical consulting in real-life environments.

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