Kinematic and kinetic patterns related to free-walking in parkinson’s disease

Martin Martínez, Federico Villagra , Juan Manuel Castellote, Maria A. Pastor

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

22 Citations (Scopus)
169 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to compare the properties of free-walking at a natural pace between mild Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients during the ON-clinical status and two control groups. In-shoe pressure-sensitive insoles were used to quantify the temporal and force characteristics of a 5-min free-walking in 11 PD patients, in 16 young healthy controls, and in 12 age-matched healthy controls. Inferential statistics analyses were performed on the kinematic and kinetic parameters to compare groups’ performances, whereas feature selection analyses and automatic classification were used to identify the signature of parkinsonian gait and to assess the performance of group classification, respectively. Compared to healthy subjects, the PD patients’ gait pattern presented significant differences in kinematic parameters associated with bilateral coordination but not in kinetics. Specifically, patients showed an increased variability in double support time, greater gait asymmetry and phase deviation, and also poorer phase coordination. Feature selection analyses based on the ReliefF algorithm on the differential parameters in PD patients revealed an effect of the clinical status, especially true in double support time variability and gait asymmetry. Automatic classification of PD patients, young and senior subjects confirmed that kinematic predictors produced a slightly better classification performance than kinetic predictors. Overall, classification accuracy of groups with a linear discriminant model which included the whole set of features (i.e., demographics and parameters extracted from the sensors) was 64.1%
Original languageEnglish
Article number4224
JournalSensors
Volume18
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01 Dec 2018

Keywords

  • Parkinson's disease
  • free-walking
  • bilateral coordination
  • kinematics
  • kinetics
  • pressure-sensitive
  • insole sensors
  • machine learning
  • Bilateral coordination
  • Free-walking
  • Kinematics
  • Machine learning
  • Kinetics
  • Pressure-sensitive insole sensors
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Shoes
  • Walking/physiology
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Parkinson Disease/diagnosis
  • Pressure
  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Algorithms
  • Gait/physiology

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Kinematic and kinetic patterns related to free-walking in parkinson’s disease'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this