NCT02705690

Benchmarking the iOS Balance Application Against the Berg Balance Test

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Stannah Stairlifts · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 69 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to benchmark the performance of an iOS application against the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), which is the most commonly used assessment tool by clinicians for measuring balance across the continuum from acute care to community-based care. An iPhone will be tied around the waist of the participant and concurrent measurements will be taken for five of the fourteen stances which comprise the BBS.

Detailed description

'Project Balance' aims to make balance an actionable component of an individuals health, allowing a long term intervention via a monitoring and training of balance health much before a fall happens. Towards this end, we have designed an iOS application and a belt. The phone is kept stable against the lower back of the participant using the belt. The application turns on the accelerometer in the phone to sample acceleration along x (media lateral) and z (anterior posterior) axis. These displacements from the mean are used to calculate the Root Mean Square of a person which acts a proxy score for Postural Sway. (Postural sway is defined as the phenomenon of constant displacement and correction of the position of the center of gravity within the base of support) Studies in the past have compared the use of accelerometers to the use of the clinical measured of Timed Up (TUG) test and Berg Balance Scale (BBS) in the assessment of postural stability and indicated that there is a high correlation between BBS, TUG and Accelerometry. Accelerometry has also found to be able to distinguish between sway responses to differing balancing conditions and between fallers and non-fallers. We aim to conduct a benchmarking study for our iOS application against the BBS.

Conditions

• Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip
• Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee
• Ankle Injuries
• Knee Injuries
• Accidental Falls
• Spinal Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	iOS Balance Application	We have designed an iOS application and a belt. The application uses accelerometer data to calculate postural sway. Steps: The phone is kept stable against the lower back of the participant using the belt. The iOS application gives instructions to user to adopt the correct stance (eg: Standing Unsupported, legs side by side) Once the stance is adopted, the application turns on the accelerometer in the phone to sample acceleration along x (media lateral) and z (anterior posterior) axis. These displacements from the mean are used to calculate the Root Mean Square of a person which acts a proxy score for Postural Sway. (Postural sway is defined as the phenomenon of constant displacement and correction of the position of the center of gravity within the base of support)

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-05-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2016-03-10
• Last updated: 2016-03-10

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United Kingdom