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Use of the sit-to-stand task to evaluate motor function of older adults using telemetry

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Geriatrics, June 2016
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Title
Use of the sit-to-stand task to evaluate motor function of older adults using telemetry
Published in
BMC Geriatrics, June 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12877-016-0294-2
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Akira Kanai, Sachiko Kiyama, Hiroshi Goto, Hidehito Tomita, Ayuko Tanaka, Mitsunobu Kunimi, Tsutomu Okada, Toshiharu Nakai

Abstract

Physical exercises are widely used in community programs, but not all older adults are willing to participate. Information and communication technology may solve this problem by allowing older people to participate in fitness programs at home. Use of remote instruction will facilitate physical exercise classes without requiring that participants gather at one place. The aim of this study was to examine use of a sit-to-stand task in evaluating motor function using conventional video communication in a telemetry system to enable real-time monitoring, and evaluation in physical performance of older adults at home. The participants were 59 older individuals and 81 university students. Three physical exercise batteries were used: arm curl, figure-of-eight walk test, and functional reach. The knee extension maximum angular velocity (KEMAV) and the iliac elevation maximum velocity (IEMV) during standing up from a chair and the heel rise frequency were used in the motion-capture measurements. The results were assessed using multi-group structural equation modeling (SEM) for the young and older groups. Young participants consistently performed better than their older counterparts on all items. Analyses with multi-group SEM based on correlations between items yielded a good model-fit for the data. Among all path diagrams for IEMV and KEMAV in the older and young groups, paths from muscular strength to skillfulness showed significant effects. The path from the IEMV to muscular strength was also significant in the older group. Multi-group SEM suggested that video-based measurements of IEMV during sit-to-stand motion can estimate muscular strength, which suggests that remote monitoring of physical performance can support wellness of community-dwelling older adults.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 138 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 24 17%
Student > Master 18 13%
Student > Bachelor 17 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Other 19 14%
Unknown 40 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 20 14%
Computer Science 12 9%
Sports and Recreations 11 8%
Psychology 5 4%
Other 21 15%
Unknown 47 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 June 2016.
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#7,171,818
of 22,876,619 outputs
Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#1,698
of 3,202 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#115,399
of 340,764 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#26
of 45 outputs
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