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Gait Spine Functional Evaluation Protocol
Sponsor: IRCCS Eugenio Medea
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to develop and validate of a new protocol for multifactorial functional assessment of the kinematics of spinal and total body movements during walking by means of the optoelectronic motion analysis system in healthy and scoliosis subjects. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Is feasibility developing a protocol to assess the spine kinematic during walking? * Is the intra and inter operator reliability of the developed protocol acceptable? * Is the usability of the developed protocol acceptable? During data acquisition a trained therapist placed reflective markers on the skin of the participants in the selected body landmarks. The participants will be asked to perform five trial of walking barefoot on a 6 meters distance at a self-selected normal-pace speed, for each session.
Official title: Development of New Multifactorial Functional Evaluation Protocols and Related Indices for the Pediatric Age - Gait Spine Evaluation Protocol
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
5 Years - 65 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
20
Start Date
2023-05-18
Completion Date
2026-05-18
Last Updated
2024-05-06
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Spine Kinematic Assessment with Optoelectronic system
All measurements will be obtained using an optoelectronic multicamera system for human motion analysis (with eight high-resolution cameras with infrared light and a sampling frequency of 100 Hz. The experimental protocol require the positioning of markers (plastic spheres covered by reflecting film). Markers will be placed by clinical operators (physiotherapists with training in optoelectronic system for human motion analysis) after training and experience in recognition of the position of spinous and transversal processes, by manual identification. During the data acquisition protocol, the subject perform five trial of walking barefoot on a 6 m distance at a self-selected normal-pace speed. Every subject repeated this operations 2 times with 2 different operators.
Locations (1)
IRCCS E. Medea
Bosisio Parini, Lecco, Italy