High-technology based gait assessment in frail people: Associations between spatio-temporal and three-dimensional gait characteristics with frailty status across four different frailty measures
Ritt M, Schuelein S, Lubrich H, Bollheimer C, Sieber C, Gaßmann KG (2017)
Publication Status: Published
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2017
Journal
Publisher: SPRINGER FRANCE
Book Volume: 21
Pages Range: 346-353
Journal Issue: 3
DOI: 10.1007/s12603-016-0764-4
Abstract
We analyzed associations between a battery of gait characteristics and frailty status across four different frailty instruments in old patients.Cross-sectional study.Geriatric wards of a general hospital.123 hospitalized patients aged ae65 years.Spatio-temporal and three-dimensional gait characteristics were assessed by an electronic walkway and a shoe-mounted, inertial sensor-based mobile gait analysis system. Frailty status was assessed by the frailty phenotype (FP), Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), frailty index (FI), and frailty index based on a comprehensive geriatric assessment (FI-CGA).A reduction in walking speed (FP, FI, FI-CGA), stride length (FP, FI, FI-CGA), maximum toe clearance (FP, CFS, FI, FI-CGA), toe off angle (FP, CFS, FI, FI-CGA), heal strike angle (FI-CGA) and greater stride length variability (FP, CFS, FI, FI-CGA), stride time variability (FP, FI), double support time (FP, FI), and stride width (CFA, FI-CGA) were associated with frailty status across the four frailty instruments (all P < 0.05, respectively). Walking speed (FP, CFS, FI, FI-CGA), stride length (FP, CFS, FI, FI-CGA), maximum toe clearance (FP, CFS, FI, FI-CGA), toe off angle (FP, CFS, FI, FI-CGA), heal strike angle (FP, FI), stride length variability (CFS, FI, FI-CGA), stride time variability (FI), double support time (FP), and stride width (FP, CFS, FI) were related with frailty severity across the four frailty instruments independent of age and sex (all P adjusted < 0.05, respectively).Gait changes in frail patients include more than solely a reduction in walking speed.
Authors with CRIS profile
Cornelius Bollheimer
Lehrstuhl für Psychogerontologie
Cornel Sieber
Lehrstuhl für Innere Medizin (Geriatrie)
Karl-Günter Gaßmann
Medizinische Fakultät
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Germany (DE)How to cite
APA:
Ritt, M., Schuelein, S., Lubrich, H., Bollheimer, C., Sieber, C., & Gaßmann, K.-G. (2017). High-technology based gait assessment in frail people: Associations between spatio-temporal and three-dimensional gait characteristics with frailty status across four different frailty measures. Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 21(3), 346-353. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12603-016-0764-4
MLA:
Ritt, M., et al. "High-technology based gait assessment in frail people: Associations between spatio-temporal and three-dimensional gait characteristics with frailty status across four different frailty measures." Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging 21.3 (2017): 346-353.
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