Can the Nintendo WII Balance Board be Used for a Reliable Assessment of the Initiation of Gait?

The Nintendo WII Balance Board (NWBB) is appreciated not only as a gaming device but also as an alternative to laboratory-grade force plate (FP) in clinical and human motion research applications. Despite its validity during postural and quasi-static motor tasks being evaluated in several studies, n...

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Published inIEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement Vol. 71; pp. 1 - 8
Main Authors Verdini, Federica, Tigrini, Andrea, Fioretti, Sandro, Mengarelli, Alessandro
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs)
Center of pressure
center of pressure (CoP)
Correlation
Correlation coefficients
Errors
Foot
Force
Force measurement
force plate (FP)
Force plates
Gait
Human motion
initiation of gait
Nintendo WII Balance Board (NWBB)
Parameters
Posture
Reliability
Task analysis
Trajectory
Usability
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Abstract The Nintendo WII Balance Board (NWBB) is appreciated not only as a gaming device but also as an alternative to laboratory-grade force plate (FP) in clinical and human motion research applications. Despite its validity during postural and quasi-static motor tasks being evaluated in several studies, no hints were provided about its usability during gait initiation for anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) analysis. In this study, the validity of NWBB was assessed by comparing temporal and spatial parameters from center of pressure (CoP) trajectories with those obtained from a dynamometric FP. The similarity between the trajectories was confirmed by the low values of root mean square error. The percentage errors in spatial parameters resulted under 10% for the whole trajectory and under 15% for the anterior/posterior and medial/lateral components, respectively. The Bland-Altman plots showed errors equally distributed around the mean difference, without a significant proportional tendency. Consistency and agreement between measures, verified by the high values of intra-class correlation coefficients, were further confirmed by temporal parameters characterized by limited errors, lower than 14%, for each gait initiation phase. The findings of the present study confirm the usability of NWBB not only for static task but also for dynamic task and can contribute to enhance the use of such device for investigating the initiation of gait in clinical and not-specialized contexts.
AbstractList The Nintendo WII Balance Board (NWBB) is appreciated not only as a gaming device but also as an alternative to laboratory-grade force plate (FP) in clinical and human motion research applications. Despite its validity during postural and quasi-static motor tasks being evaluated in several studies, no hints were provided about its usability during gait initiation for anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) analysis. In this study, the validity of NWBB was assessed by comparing temporal and spatial parameters from center of pressure (CoP) trajectories with those obtained from a dynamometric FP. The similarity between the trajectories was confirmed by the low values of root mean square error. The percentage errors in spatial parameters resulted under 10% for the whole trajectory and under 15% for the anterior/posterior and medial/lateral components, respectively. The Bland-Altman plots showed errors equally distributed around the mean difference, without a significant proportional tendency. Consistency and agreement between measures, verified by the high values of intra-class correlation coefficients, were further confirmed by temporal parameters characterized by limited errors, lower than 14%, for each gait initiation phase. The findings of the present study confirm the usability of NWBB not only for static task but also for dynamic task and can contribute to enhance the use of such device for investigating the initiation of gait in clinical and not-specialized contexts.
Author Fioretti, Sandro
Mengarelli, Alessandro
Tigrini, Andrea
Verdini, Federica
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SubjectTerms Anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs)
Center of pressure
center of pressure (CoP)
Correlation
Correlation coefficients
Errors
Foot
Force
Force measurement
force plate (FP)
Force plates
Gait
Human motion
initiation of gait
Nintendo WII Balance Board (NWBB)
Parameters
Posture
Reliability
Task analysis
Trajectory
Usability
Title Can the Nintendo WII Balance Board be Used for a Reliable Assessment of the Initiation of Gait?
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