Title |
Mobile Romberg test assessment (mRomberg)
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Published in |
BMC Research Notes, September 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1756-0500-7-640 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Alejandro Galán-Mercant, Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas |
Abstract |
The diagnosis of frailty is based on physical impairments and clinicians have indicated that early detection is one of the most effective methods for reducing the severity of physical frailty. Maybe, an alternative to the classical diagnosis could be the instrumentalization of classical functional testing, as Romberg test or Timed Get Up and Go Test. The aim of this study was (I) to measure and describe the magnitude of accelerometry values in the Romberg test in two groups of frail and non-frail elderly people through instrumentation with the iPhone 4®, (II) to analyse the performances and differences between the study groups, and (III) to analyse the performances and differences within study groups to characterise accelerometer responses to increasingly difficult challenges to balance. |
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