Reliability of a Wearable Motion Tracking System for the Clinical Evaluation of a Dynamic Cervical Spine Function
Neck pain is a common cause of disability worldwide. Lack of objective tools to quantify an individual’s functional disability results in the widespread use of subjective assessments to measure the limitations in spine function and the response to interventions. This study assessed the reliability o...
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| author | Hamed Hani Reid Souchereau Anas Kachlan Jonathan Dufour Alexander Aurand Prasath Mageswaran Madison Hyer William Marras |
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| description | Neck pain is a common cause of disability worldwide. Lack of objective tools to quantify an individual’s functional disability results in the widespread use of subjective assessments to measure the limitations in spine function and the response to interventions. This study assessed the reliability of the quantifying neck function using a wearable cervical motion tracking system. Three novice raters recorded the neck motion assessments on 20 volunteers using the device. Kinematic features from the signals in all three anatomical planes were extracted and used as inputs to repeated measures and mixed-effects regression models to calculate the intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). Cervical spine-specific kinematic features indicated good and excellent inter-rater and intra-rater reliability for the most part. For intra-rater reliability, the ICC values varied from 0.85 to 0.95, and for inter-rater reliability, they ranged from 0.7 to 0.89. Overall, velocity measures proved to be more reliable compared to other kinematic features. This technique is a trustworthy tool for evaluating neck function objectively. This study showed the potential for cervical spine-specific kinematic measurements to deliver repeatable and reliable metrics to evaluate clinical performance at any time points. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a0ba2c0a705c4fb7a41f7f890929529c2023-11-16T18:01:13ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-01-01233144810.3390/s23031448Reliability of a Wearable Motion Tracking System for the Clinical Evaluation of a Dynamic Cervical Spine FunctionHamed Hani0Reid Souchereau1Anas Kachlan2Jonathan Dufour3Alexander Aurand4Prasath Mageswaran5Madison Hyer6William Marras7Spine Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USASpine Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USADepartment of Integrated Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USASpine Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USASpine Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USASpine Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USACenter for Biostatistics, Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USASpine Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USANeck pain is a common cause of disability worldwide. Lack of objective tools to quantify an individual’s functional disability results in the widespread use of subjective assessments to measure the limitations in spine function and the response to interventions. This study assessed the reliability of the quantifying neck function using a wearable cervical motion tracking system. Three novice raters recorded the neck motion assessments on 20 volunteers using the device. Kinematic features from the signals in all three anatomical planes were extracted and used as inputs to repeated measures and mixed-effects regression models to calculate the intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). Cervical spine-specific kinematic features indicated good and excellent inter-rater and intra-rater reliability for the most part. For intra-rater reliability, the ICC values varied from 0.85 to 0.95, and for inter-rater reliability, they ranged from 0.7 to 0.89. Overall, velocity measures proved to be more reliable compared to other kinematic features. This technique is a trustworthy tool for evaluating neck function objectively. This study showed the potential for cervical spine-specific kinematic measurements to deliver repeatable and reliable metrics to evaluate clinical performance at any time points.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/3/1448musculoskeletal disorderneck functionreliabilityintra-raterinter-raterwearables |
| spellingShingle | Hamed Hani Reid Souchereau Anas Kachlan Jonathan Dufour Alexander Aurand Prasath Mageswaran Madison Hyer William Marras Reliability of a Wearable Motion Tracking System for the Clinical Evaluation of a Dynamic Cervical Spine Function Sensors musculoskeletal disorder neck function reliability intra-rater inter-rater wearables |
| title | Reliability of a Wearable Motion Tracking System for the Clinical Evaluation of a Dynamic Cervical Spine Function |
| title_full | Reliability of a Wearable Motion Tracking System for the Clinical Evaluation of a Dynamic Cervical Spine Function |
| title_fullStr | Reliability of a Wearable Motion Tracking System for the Clinical Evaluation of a Dynamic Cervical Spine Function |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reliability of a Wearable Motion Tracking System for the Clinical Evaluation of a Dynamic Cervical Spine Function |
| title_short | Reliability of a Wearable Motion Tracking System for the Clinical Evaluation of a Dynamic Cervical Spine Function |
| title_sort | reliability of a wearable motion tracking system for the clinical evaluation of a dynamic cervical spine function |
| topic | musculoskeletal disorder neck function reliability intra-rater inter-rater wearables |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/3/1448 |
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