Deans' stroke musings: Reliability of the measures of weight-bearing distribution obtained during quiet stance by digital scales in subjects with and without hemiparesis

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Reliability of the measures of weight-bearing distribution obtained during quiet stance by digital scales in subjects with and without hemiparesis

You'll have to ask your therapist what is the point of this test and the protocols that can be used to pass the test.
I assume that weight bearing while walking is much more useful to accomplish.
Measuring weight-bearing distribution by your socks;

Sensor embedded socks

Measuring weight-bearing distribution by your insoles;

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http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/09593985.2014.994248

Paulo Henrique Ferreira de Araujo-Barbosa, Lidiane Teles de Menezes, Abraão Souza Costa, Clarissa Cardoso dos Santos Couto Paz, and Emerson Fachin-Martins

Faculty of Ceilandia, University of Brasilia,

Brasília

, Brazil

Address correspondence to

Emerson Fachin-Martins

, Faculty of Ceilandia, University of Brasilia,

Brasília

, Brazil. E-mail: efmartins@unb.br

Abstract

Described as an alternative way of assessing weight-bearing asymmetries, the measures obtained from digital scales have been used as an index to classify weight-bearing distribution. This study aimed to describe the intra-test and the test/retest reliability of measures in subjects with and without hemiparesis during quiet stance. The percentage of body weight borne by one limb was calculated for a sample of subjects with hemiparesis and for a control group that was matched by gender and age. A two-way analysis of variance was used to verify the intra-test reliability. This analysis was calculated using the differences between the averages of the measures obtained during single, double or triple trials. The intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was utilized and data plotted using the Bland–Altman method. The intra-test analysis showed significant differences, only observed in the hemiparesis group, between the measures obtained by single and triple trials. Excellent and moderate ICC values (0.69–0.84) between test and retest were observed in the hemiparesis group, while for control groups ICC values (0.41–0.74) were classified as moderate, progressing from almost poor for measures obtained by a single trial to almost excellent for those obtained by triple trials. In conclusion, good reliability ranging from moderate to excellent classifications was found for participants with and without hemiparesis. Moreover, an improvement of the repeatability was observed with fewer trials for participants with hemiparesis, and with more trials for participants without hemiparesis.