Validity of the Nintendo Wii Balance Board for the Assessment of Balance Measures in the Functional Reach Test

• Published in: IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 1400 - 1406
• Main Authors: Mengarelli, Alessandro, Cardarelli, Stefano, Strazza, Annachiara, Di Nardo, Francesco, Fioretti, Sandro, Verdini, Federica
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.07.2018
• Subjects: balance assessment; Calibration; center of pressure; Force; force plate; Functional reach test; Measurement uncertainty; nintendo wii balance board; Performance evaluation; Task analysis; Trajectory; Wrist

The functional reach test (FRT) is widely used for assessing dynamic balance stability in elderly and pathological subjects. Force platforms (FPs) represent a fundamental part of the instrumented FRT experimental setup due to the central role of center-of-pressure (COP) displacement in FRT analysis....