Open AccessAre Accelerometer-based Functional Outcome Assessments Feasible and Valid After Treatment for Lower Extremity Sarcomas?
Author(s) -
Sherron Furtado,
Alan Godfrey,
Silvia Del Din,
Lynn Rochester,
Craig Gerrand
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1097/corr.0000000000000883
Subject(s) - medicine , gait , physical medicine and rehabilitation , balance (ability) , physical therapy , amputation , timed up and go test , pelvis , accelerometer , gait analysis , construct validity , femur , concurrent validity , surgery , patient satisfaction , computer science , operating system , internal consistency
Aspects of physical functioning, including balance and gait, are affected after surgery for lower limb musculoskeletal tumors. These are not routinely measured but likely are related to how well patients function after resection or amputation for a bone or soft tissue sarcoma. Small, inexpensive portable accelerometers are available that might be clinically useful to assess balance and gait in these patients, but they have not been well studied.