ArticleJournal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation2025
Quantifying arm swing in Parkinson's disease: a method accounting for arm activities during free-living gait.
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backgroundAccurately measuring hypokinetic arm swing during free-living gait in Parkinson's disease (PD) is challenging due to other concurrent arm activities. We developed a method to isolate gait segments without these arm activities.
methodsWrist accelerometer and gyroscope data were collected from 25 individuals with PD and 25 age-matched controls while performing unscripted activities in their home environment. This was done after overnight withdrawal of dopaminergic medication ('pre-medication') and approximately one hour after intake ('post-medication'). Using video annotations as ground truth, we trained and evaluated two classifiers: one for detecting gait and one for detecting gait segments without other arm activities. Based on the filtered gait segments, arm swing was quantified using the median and 95th percentile range of motion (RoM). These arm swing parameters were evaluated in three ways: (1) the agreement between predicted and video-annotated gait segments without other arm activities, (2) the sensitivity to differences between PD and controls, and (3) the sensitivity to the effects of dopaminergic medication.
resultsOn the most affected side, the mean (SD) balanced accuracy for detecting gait without other arm activities was 0.84 (0.10) pre-medication and 0.88 (0.09) post-medication. The agreement between arm swing parameters of predicted and video-annotated gait segments without other arm activities was high irrespective of medication state (intra-class correlation coefficients: median RoM: 0.99; 95th percentile RoM: 0.97). Both the median and 95th percentile RoM were smaller in PD pre-medication compared to controls (median:
conclusionsFiltering out gait segments with other concurrent arm activities is feasible and increases the change in arm swing parameters following dopaminergic medication in free-living conditions. This approach may be used to monitor treatment effect and disease progression in daily life.
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