This study was aimed at investigating whether postural sway measures derived from a standard force platform were similar to those generated by a custom-written software (“We-Measure”) acquiring and processing data from a commercial Nintendo balance board (BB). For this purpose, 90 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 50 healthy controls (HC) were tested in a single-day session with a reference standard force platform and a BB-based system. Despite its acceptable between-device agreement (tested by visual evaluation of Bland–Altman plot), the low-cost BB-based system tended to overestimate postural sway when compared to the reference standard force platform in both MS and HC groups (on average +30% and +54%, respectively). Between-device reliability was just adequate (MS: 66%, HC: 47%), while test–retest reliability was excellent (MS: 84%, HC: 88%). Concurrent validity evaluation showed similar performance between the reference standard force platform and the BB-based system in discriminating fallers and non-fallers among patients with MS. All these findings may encourage the use of this balance board-based new device in longitudinal study, rather than in cross-sectional design, thus providing a potential useful tool for multicenter settings.
Castelli, L., Stocchi, L., Patrignani, M., Sellitto, G., Giuliani, M., & Prosperini, L. (2015). We-Measure: Toward a low-cost portable posturography for patients with multiple sclerosis using the commercial Wii balance board. JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES, 359(1-2), 440-444 [j.jns.2015.10.016].
Titolo: | We-Measure: Toward a low-cost portable posturography for patients with multiple sclerosis using the commercial Wii balance board | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2015 | |
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Citazione: | Castelli, L., Stocchi, L., Patrignani, M., Sellitto, G., Giuliani, M., & Prosperini, L. (2015). We-Measure: Toward a low-cost portable posturography for patients with multiple sclerosis using the commercial Wii balance board. JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES, 359(1-2), 440-444 [j.jns.2015.10.016]. | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11590/298076 | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |