Background and aim: Gait changes due to aging can result in functional limitations and a higher risk of falls, with older adults showing alterations in joint angles and moments. Marker-based gait analysis is not widely used in clinical settings due to its complexity and discomfort, especially in older adults. Recent advances in markerless motion capture, such as Theia3D, offer a promising alternative. This stud...
This report– DEL01 Research report – presents a summary of the research process and results, focused on discovering practical and applicable existing life expectancy and economic indicators, including indicators, values, and data sources to incorporate into HCG€. • This deliverable is relevant for the success of the project as it identifies existing references on societal health costs, the influence of the urba...
Background: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of motor disability in children and can cause severe gait deviations. The sagittal gait patterns classification for children with bilateral CP is an important guideline for the planning of the rehabilitation process. Ankle foot orthoses should improve the biomechanical parameters of pathological gait in the sagittal plane. Methods: A systematic search of ...
Healh self-management is the ability to manage internal and external resources, knowledge and motivations related to a chronic clinical condition. The present study proposes the translation and cultural adaptation for the portuguese language, as well as the psychometric properties, of the Communication with Physicians (CwP) and Cognitive Symptoms Management (CSM) scales. After constituting the final version of ...
This work presents a dataset of functional fitness tests acquired with Kinect v2 and physiological sensors. The dataset contains both young and senior subjects executing a number of fitness tests meeting scientific standards of reliability and validity. The main objective is the ability to assess lower body strength, endurance, gait speed, agility and balance from the data obtained from commercially accessible ...
Improving functional capacity is a common goal when providing physiotherapy treatment to patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP). In a clinical setting, clinicians and researchers are often interested in measuring change in a patient’s condition as a result of an intervention or to distinguish individual differences in response to treatment. To address change accurately in health-related outcomes, such as fu...