Feasibility of a smartphone-based balance assessment system for subjects with chronic stroke

• Published in: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine Vol. 161; pp. 191 - 195
• Main Authors: Hou, You-Ruei, Chiu, Ya-Lan, Chiang, Shang-Lin, Chen, Hui-Ya, Sung, Wen-Hsu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ireland Elsevier B.V 01.07.2018
• Subjects: Acceleration; Activities of Daily Living; Adult; Aged; Assessment; Balance; Chronic Disease; Female; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Monitoring, Ambulatory - methods; Paresis - diagnostic imaging; Postural Balance; Quality of Life; Research Design; Sample Size; Smartphone; Software; Stroke; Stroke - diagnostic imaging; Stroke; Smartphone; Balance; Assessment

•Smartphones have the potential to accomplish balance assessment with their built-in sensors, however, the feasibility is needed to be proved.•Smartphone-based assessment method can differentiate the balance performance of healthy adults and subjects with stroke.•Smartphones may be a convenient, eas...