Instrumentation for investigating seating stability in young children with lower limb spasticity

Author

Riedel, Susan A. ; Harris, Gerald F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Comput. & Biomed. Eng., Marquette Univ., Milwaukee, WI, USA

fYear

1989

Firstpage

855

Abstract

Instrumentation that will provide data to assist in the quantitative assessment of changes in seating stability after surgical intervention to relieve lower limb spasticity has been designed, constructed, and tested. Of particular interest in this study are measures of center of pressure while seated and standing, measures of upper extremity and lower limb forces exerted in a pull-to-stand task, and measures of upper extremity speed and range of motion attained in a tray-mounted switch-activation task. Data collected from the tests of seating stability, pull-to-stand, and supported standing are analyzed in both the time and frequency domains. In the time domain, two or three 30-s epochs are selected from each test to maximize the likelihood of attaining a stationary epoch

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; center of pressure; frequency domains; lower limb forces; lower limb spasticity; pull-to-stand task; seating stability; stationary epoch; supported standing; surgical intervention; time domain; tray-mounted switch-activation task; upper extremity speed; young children; Extremities; Force measurement; Motion measurement; Particle measurements; Pressure measurement; Stability; Surgery; Surgical instruments; Testing; Velocity measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96018

Filename

96018