A Wearable System Based on Multiple Magnetic and Inertial Measurement Units for Spine Mobility Assessment: A Reliability Study for the Evaluation of Ankylosing Spondylitis

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 22; no. 4; p. 1332
• Main Authors: Martínez-Hernández, Adriana, Perez-Lomelí, Juan S, Burgos-Vargas, Ruben, Padilla-Castañeda, Miguel A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01.02.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Accelerometers; Accuracy; Algorithms; Ankylosing spondylitis; Arthritis; Coordinate transformations; Digital signal processors; Evaluation; human movement; Humans; inertial measurement units; Inertial platforms; Kalman filter; Kalman filters; Kinematics; Magnetic Phenomena; Measurement; Medical research; Medicine, Experimental; Patients; Range of motion; Range of Motion, Articular; Reliability analysis; Reproducibility of Results; Sensors; Severity of Illness Index; Spine; Spondylitis, Ankylosing - diagnosis; Systematic errors; Wearable Electronic Devices; Mexico; spine; Kalman filter; ankylosing spondylitis; human movement; inertial measurement units

Spinal mobility assessment is essential for the diagnostic of patients with ankylosing spondylitis. BASMI is a routine clinical evaluation of the spine; its measurements are made with goniometers and tape measures, implying systematic errors, subjectivity, and low sensitivity. Therefore, it is cruci...