This brings a wide range of benefits for both patients and health care practitioners, and also improves the quality of rehabilitation health care. The emergence of new technologies has led to conventional rehabilitation services incorporating the concept of telerehabilitation as an attractive alternative to providing at-distance rehabilitation over the Internet. Use of inertial sensors is described in a protocol which analyses upper-limb movements, whilst their intra- and inter-operator reliability has been determined in several planes of motion. Given their compact size and portability, one attractive option is inertial sensors, which are a valid and reliable motion analysis system. Subsequently, ROM has been studied by digital goniometer, digital inclinometer ], visual estimation, visual level and other devices such 3D gyroscope or Kinect system. For decades active and passive upper limb motion has been studied by goniometry.
#Arm abduction manual#
One of the most widely used methods for evaluating ROM is manual goniometry, which was first used to treat injured soldiers during the First World War, and has been developed ever since. This method provides a convenient and precise tool in assessment of arm motion.Īrm range of motion (ROM) is a measure of interest in clinical setting as it is important for the diagnosis, evaluating the treatment and quantifying possible changes.
Smartphone photographs are a reliable and valid method to measure arm abduction angle, supporting the use of photography obtained through app for measuring joint ROM. However, it was no significant for the healthy group. Measurements from photographs and intertial sensors were highly correlated (Pearson r = 0.964) for the total sample. Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability were high (intraclass correlation coefficients 0.998 and 0.984 respectively) for the total sample, although, for the healthy group, intrareliability was lower and interreliability was no reliable. Reliability was investigated by intraclass correlation coefficients and p values, and validity by Pearson correlation and P. Descriptive statistics were calculated for descriptive and anthropometric variables, as well as for the first measure of arm abduction angle by photographs and inertial sensors. Two examiners measured 37 shoulders on 3 separate occasions over 2 days: 2 measurements on the first day and a third one the following day. mROM app was used to measure arm abduction angle. Twenty three subjects with shoulder pathology (14 female, 9 male) and 14 healthy subjects (8 female, 6 male) were examined (37 shoulders). The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of an Internet and image-based app (mROM) regarding arm abduction angle in both healthy subjects and patients suffering from shoulder damage. However, the validity of this method has not been previously established. Smartphone image-based goniometer offers a noninvasive easy-to-use method of measuring arm abduction angle. Over the years, different techniques have been used to analyze upper limbs mobility. Measuring range of movement is important in clinical shoulder assessment.