Acceleration based Activity Levels during Subacute Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation

You'll have to ask your doctor what this knowledge will be used for to help your recovery. I could see no use for it but to blame the patients for not being active enough.  No testing on your doctors and therapists activity levels on your behalf to get recovered. 

Acceleration based Activity Levels during Subacute Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation

Procedia Technology 27 ( 2017 ) 120 – 121

Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect 2212-0173 © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ). Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of Biosensors 2016 doi: 10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.053 Biosensors 2016 Margit Alt Murphy a,b *, Sofi Andersson a,b , Anna Danielsson a , Fredrik Ohlsson c , Jan Wipenmyr

 Abstract 

People after stroke have difficulties to reach sufficient physi cal activity level during their rehabilitation and particularly outside the therapy time. We aim to quantify activity levels and investigat e differences in motor activity in weekdays and weekends in a subacute stage after stroke. Data from multiple three-axis accelerometers was collected during two 48h sessions in 11 patients . The activity level and symmetry indices were sensitive to variations in weekend and weekdays. This information is valuable in rehabilitation planning and management and enables identification of those in risk of low physical activity and inactivity. © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of Biosensors 2016. Keywords: Accelerometry, upper extremity; arm; stroke; activity; assessment 1. Introduction The number of studies using accelerometers is constantly increasing, but evidence of clinical implications is still unclear and data loss is not always reported [1]. The real-world activity after stroke is not well described [2].This study aims to quantify activity levels and investigate differences in motor activity in weekdays and weekends in persons undergoing rehabilitation in subacute stage after stroke.  3. Results A comparative analysis of the SMA and ratio distributions showed that the activity was lower and the paretic arm was used less on weekends. An analysis of missing data revealed that from all five units over two sessions full two-day data could be obtained in 74% of measurements. A further, 12 % had full data at least from one day, while in 14 % data was missing for more than one day, partly due to patient compliance(6.5%) and partly due toBluetooth, memory card or battery failure of the sensor unit(s) (7.5%). Section 2 at link.