Gait Analysis Using the Physics Toolbox App
Sensors in new smartphones can be an excellent tool to measure different physical quantities and these can be useful to develop real experiments with application in human health. Therefore, in this research work, the design and construction of a gait analyser was carried out using the toolbox physic...
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| author | Abel Garcia-Barrientos Raul Balderas-Navarro Sharon Macias-Velasquez Jose Antonio Hoyo-Montano Mario Alberto Garcia-Ramirez Daniel Espejel-Blanco Jairo Plaza-Castillo |
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| description | Sensors in new smartphones can be an excellent tool to measure different physical quantities and these can be useful to develop real experiments with application in human health. Therefore, in this research work, the design and construction of a gait analyser was carried out using the toolbox physics app for data acquisition and MATLAB was used for its analysis. This system analyses the behaviour of walking in people and its purpose is to diagnose any health problem caused by the human being’s way of walking. For this, the g-force meter was used in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$x$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$y$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$z$ </tex-math></inline-formula> components. This application uses inputs from the device’s sensors to save and export the data in comma-separated values (CSV) format through a.csv extension. The results are very interesting because they can be used in medical diagnoses such as reduced gait speed and loss of regularity, symmetry, or synchronization of body movements. Since many organs are involved in gait, there are several types of gait disturbances that cause gait to be abnormal. With this system, it is possible to identify the hemiplegic gait, festinating gait, paraparhetic gait, waddling gait, among others. This analysis was carried out using the Pearson, Spearman, and Kendall correlation coefficients, which indicate the possible diagnoses in the patients. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-96beb0a3935d40f0a825c7a6896666fa2022-12-21T23:34:16ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110317323173910.1109/ACCESS.2022.31583159732445Gait Analysis Using the Physics Toolbox AppAbel Garcia-Barrientos0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6317-3510Raul Balderas-Navarro1Sharon Macias-Velasquez2Jose Antonio Hoyo-Montano3Mario Alberto Garcia-Ramirez4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1947-9595Daniel Espejel-Blanco5Jairo Plaza-Castillo6Faculty of Science, UASLP, San Luis Potosí, MexicoDepartment of Physics, IICO, UASLP, San Luis Potosí, MexicoFaculty of Engineering, UASLP, San Luis Potosí, MexicoGraduate Studies and Research Division, Tecnológico Nacional de México Campus Hermosillo, Hermosillo, Sonora, MexicoElectronics Department, Research Centre for Applied Science and Engineering, UDG, Guadalajara, MexicoGraduate Studies and Research Division, Tecnológico Nacional de México Campus Hermosillo, Hermosillo, Sonora, MexicoDepartment of Physics, Universidad del Atlantico, Barranquilla, ColombiaSensors in new smartphones can be an excellent tool to measure different physical quantities and these can be useful to develop real experiments with application in human health. Therefore, in this research work, the design and construction of a gait analyser was carried out using the toolbox physics app for data acquisition and MATLAB was used for its analysis. This system analyses the behaviour of walking in people and its purpose is to diagnose any health problem caused by the human being’s way of walking. For this, the g-force meter was used in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$x$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$y$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$z$ </tex-math></inline-formula> components. This application uses inputs from the device’s sensors to save and export the data in comma-separated values (CSV) format through a.csv extension. The results are very interesting because they can be used in medical diagnoses such as reduced gait speed and loss of regularity, symmetry, or synchronization of body movements. Since many organs are involved in gait, there are several types of gait disturbances that cause gait to be abnormal. With this system, it is possible to identify the hemiplegic gait, festinating gait, paraparhetic gait, waddling gait, among others. This analysis was carried out using the Pearson, Spearman, and Kendall correlation coefficients, which indicate the possible diagnoses in the patients.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9732445/Gait analyzeraccelerometersnon-invasive measurementsphysics toolbox app |
| spellingShingle | Abel Garcia-Barrientos Raul Balderas-Navarro Sharon Macias-Velasquez Jose Antonio Hoyo-Montano Mario Alberto Garcia-Ramirez Daniel Espejel-Blanco Jairo Plaza-Castillo Gait Analysis Using the Physics Toolbox App IEEE Access Gait analyzer accelerometers non-invasive measurements physics toolbox app |
| title | Gait Analysis Using the Physics Toolbox App |
| title_full | Gait Analysis Using the Physics Toolbox App |
| title_fullStr | Gait Analysis Using the Physics Toolbox App |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gait Analysis Using the Physics Toolbox App |
| title_short | Gait Analysis Using the Physics Toolbox App |
| title_sort | gait analysis using the physics toolbox app |
| topic | Gait analyzer accelerometers non-invasive measurements physics toolbox app |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9732445/ |
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