Open AccessProposed objective scoring algorithm for assessment and intervention recovery following surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis based on relevant gait metrics from wearable devices: the Gait Posture index (GPi)
Author(s) -
Ralph J. Mobbs,
Redmond Ross Mobbs,
Wen Jie Choy
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of spine surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2414-469X
pISSN - 2414-4630
DOI - 10.21037/jss.2019.09.06
Subject(s) - lumbar spinal stenosis , oswestry disability index , spinal stenosis , gait , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physical therapy , medicine , algorithm , lumbar , correlation , wearable computer , low back pain , computer science , surgery , mathematics , alternative medicine , pathology , embedded system , geometry
Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) results in significant pain and disability. As spine healthcare providers, monitoring patient's outcomes is of the highest importance, and guides everything we do. However, a large amount of our data has been based solely on subjective, single time-point outcome tools limited by their subjective nature.