Gait Spine Functional Evaluation Protocol
Development of New Multifactorial Functional Evaluation Protocols and Related Indices for the Pediatric Age - Gait Spine Evaluation Protocol
IRCCS Eugenio Medea
20 participants
May 18, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
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.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria4
- For healthy group:
- no history of low back pain or spine related pathology
- Diagnosis of idiopathic scoliosis
- Autonomous gait
Exclusion Criteria3
- motor impairments during gait
- For scoliosis group:
- motor impairments during gait
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Interventions
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.
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NCT06400680