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R Barrois1, Th Gregory2, L Oudre1,3, Th Moreau1, Ch Truong1, A Aram Pulini1, A Vienne1, Ch Labourdette1,4, N Vayatis1,4, S Buffat1,5, A Yelnik1,6, C de Waele1, S Laporte7, P P Vidal1, D Ricard1,8.
Abstract
For diagnosis and follow up, it is important to be able to quantify limp in an objective, and precise way adapted to daily clinical consultation. The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine if an inertial sensor-based method could provide simple features that correlate with the severity of lower limb osteoarthritis evaluated by the WOMAC index without the use of step detection in the signal processing. Forty-eight patients with lower limb osteoarthritis formed two severity groups separated by the median of the WOMAC index (G1, G2). Twelve asymptomatic age-matched control subjects formed the control group (G0). Subjects were asked to walk straight 10 meters forward and 10 meters back at self-selected walking speeds with inertial measurement units (IMU) (3-D accelerometers, 3-D gyroscopes and 3-D magnetometers) attached on the head, the lower back (L3-L4) and both feet. Sixty parameters corresponding to the mean and the root mean square (RMS) of the recorded signals on the various sensors (head, lower back and feet), in the various axes, in the various frames were computed. Parameters were defined as discriminating when they showed statistical differences between the three groups. In total, four parameters were found discriminating: mean and RMS of the norm of the acceleration in the horizontal plane for contralateral and ipsilateral foot in the doctor's office frame. No discriminating parameter was found on the head or the lower back. No discriminating parameter was found in the sensor linked frames. This study showed that two IMUs placed on both feet and a step detection free signal processing method could be an objective and quantitative complement to the clinical examination of the physician in everyday practice. Our method provides new automatically computed parameters that could be used for the comprehension of lower limb osteoarthritis. It may not only be used in medical consultation to score patients but also to monitor the evolution of their clinical syndrome during and after rehabilitation. Finally, it paves the way for the quantification of gait in other fields such as neurology and for monitoring the gait at a patient's home.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27776168 PMCID: PMC5077168 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164975
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Age body mass index (BMI) and WOMAC index mean (upper case) and standard deviation (lower case) of group 1 and group 2 patients with symptomatic lower limb osteoarthritis and age matched controls.
| Group | Number | Age | BMI | WOMAC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 63,2 | 25,2 | 0,0 | |
| 17,1 | 4,6 | 0,0 | ||
| 24 | 70.5 | 26.8 | 14,1 | |
| 9.5 | 5,7 | 10,0 | ||
| 24 | 70,5 | 28,2 | 62,58 | |
| 14,9 | 5,5 | 14,0 |
Fig 1Representative data and manual phase annotation result for one healthy participant performing a 10 meters go and 10 meters back walking exercise at self-selected walking speed.
Black bars stand for manual annotation. Dashed zone corresponds to the walking phases. The walking parts of the signal were taken for parameter computation. (A)–Representative ML lateral angular velocity in the sensor linked frame for right foot. (B)—Representative ML lateral angular velocity in the sensor linked frame for left foot. (C)–Representative V angular velocity in the sensor linked frame for L3-L4.
Acceleration and angular velocity parameters in the sensor linked frames and the doctor’s office linked frame.
RMS for root mean square.
| Meadial lateral (ML) | - | Mean |
| RMS | RMS | |
| Anterior posterior (AP) | - | Mean |
| RMS | RMS | |
| Vertical (V) | - | Mean |
| RMS | RMS | |
| Horizontal (H) plane | Mean | - |
| RMS | - | |
| Vertical (V) axis | Mean | Mean |
| RMS | RMS | |
Fig 2Selected 24 parameters out of the 60 IMU based parameters computed in the doctor’s office linked frame obtained from 4 IMUs on 12 control subjects and 48 patients during a 10 meters go and 10 meters back walking task.
Sensor location are shown on the walking silhouette by colored diamonds: grey for the head, yellow for the sacrum, blue for the contralateral foot and red for the ipsilateral foot. The red cross of the walking silhouette indicates the ipsilateral foot to the lesion defined by the side where the patient is the more symptomatic. Each parameter is represented by a bar diagram. The row indicate the location of the sensor and whether the parameters is computed on an acceleration (A) or an angular velocity signal (B). The columns indicate whether the parameter is computed on the horizontal plane or on the vertical axis and whether the parameter is a mean or a RMS of the norm of the walking signal. In each bar diagram, the parameter is represented as a function of the severity. The results are shown by a modulated grey cross: horizontal bar stands for mean and vertical bar stands for the standard deviation. Light grey represents the healthy group (G0), medium grey the moderately impaired group (G1) and dark grey the severely impaired group (G2). The parameters marked by a star (*) are the discriminating parameters (parameters that show significant difference between the three WOMAC index defined severity groups). The statistical analysis was performed with an ANOVA analysis and a Tukey pairwise comparison test (p-value set at 0.05). RMS stands for root mean square and V for vertical axis.
Fig 3Mean walking velocity as a function of the WOMAC index based osteoarthritis severity groups.
The results are shown by a modulated grey cross: horizontal bar stands for mean and vertical bar stands for the standard deviation. Light grey represents the healthy participants, medium grey the moderately impaired group and dark grey the severely impaired group. Black horizontal bars show the statistical differences between the groups computed with an ANOVA analysis and a Tukey pairwise comparison test (p-value set at 0.05).
Sensor-placement control experiment 1 (Exp. 1): coefficient of variation (CV; mean/SD) of the mean and root mean square (RMS) of the norm for acceleration in the horizontal plane in the right foot for 2 subjects over 5 walking trials with renewal of the sensor placement at each trial.
Sensor-placement control experiment 2 (Exp. 2): CV over 9 walking trials (-20; -15; -10; -5; 0; 5; 10; 15; 20 mm) with displacement of the sensor in increments of 5 mm along the antero-posterior axis and medio-lateral axis in terms of the reference position. Values are in percentages.
| Mean | RMS | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 4.3 | ||
| 0.9 | 2.1 | ||
| 7.4 | 8.9 | ||
| 2.9 | 4.0 | ||
* CV < 5%.