Calculate the quality of the walk to prevent falls
In the scientific journal Sensor, researchers from ''TINCARE'' (research module 3) of NODES recently published and article demonstrating how calculating ntrophy on the gait of elderly individuals affected by chronic issues and/or Parkinson's disease serves as a valid indicator of the walking quality. Entrophy can be appliaed to gait measurements for diagnostic and preventive purposes.
From Juve 2022 to June 2023, approximately 70 elderly individuals wor a daily electonic bracelet capable of monitoring their movements.
These data were collected at a frequency of 25 samples per second, resulting in a dataset that, for each eldelry person, involved storing more than 2 million data points per day. These data were then trasnferred to a cloud system, which, utilizing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms, enabled the calculation of the ''degree of disorder'' in a person's walk.
Throughout the observation year, it was possible to identify individuals who experienced improvements and those who exhibited deteriorations in walking quality.
This value, in the next experiments and researchers, will be exploited to try falls, as a decline in walking quality that can serve as an early symptom of a potential future fall episode.
Massimo Canonico, Francesco Desimoni, Alberto Dal Molin, et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/