Quantitative evaluation of stepping test data of patients with whiplash through digital craniocorpography

Author

Ciavarro, G.L. ; Zinnato, C. ; Alpini, D. ; Andreoni, G. ; Santambrogio, G.C.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di BioIngegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

1701

Abstract

Digital-craniocorpography (dCCG) can study the equilibrium system through simple experimental procedures. The instrumentation records the movements of the head and the trunk of the patient suffering from whiplash syndrome who performs a motor task (stepping test). To quantitatively evaluate patients motor ability and their instability 25 healthy people were selected and analyzed. Their data were compared with 33 whiplash patients who performed the stepping test. A set of parameters computed by the dCCG has been chosen to describe the subjects\´ performance. These values have been statistically compared among the healthy and the pathological samples on the basis of the time elapsed from trauma (time from trauma>or\n\n\t\t

Keywords

biomechanics; neurophysiology; statistical analysis; clinical interpretation; digital craniocorpography; equilibrium system; head movements; healthy samples; instrumentation records; motion morphological pattern; motor task; pathological samples; patients motor ability; patients stepping test data; quantitative evaluation; trauma; trunk movements; whiplash syndrome; Cameras; Central nervous system; Instruments; Lesions; Magnetic heads; Pathology; Performance evaluation; Radar imaging; Testing; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7789-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1279720

Filename

1279720