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OneStep technology is a smartphone application, utilizing smartphone sensors to provide ongoing gait diagnostics. In this longitudinal study, 50 consecutive patients with lower-extremity disability or chronic pain, will be using the One-Step App, downloaded to their personal smartphones, in parallel with the usual rehabilitation treatments, during a one-month period. Analyzed gait data from the App will be linked with clinical data collected by a team of experts, in order to evaluate the potential use of this App as an objective means to characterize and quantify patients' gait characteristics along the follow-up period, and to objectively assess the patients' adherence and compliance with the rehabilitation regime.
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Background:
Patient adherence is a crucial determinant of the rehabilitation process. After injury or surgery, many patients are given specific exercises to conduct unsupervised on their own to aid their recovery. Evidence suggests that noncompliance with the prescribed exercise regime is associated with poor rehabilitation outcomes. OneStep technology is a smartphone application (App), which uses smartphone sensors to provide ongoing gait diagnostics.
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Fifty consecutive patients with lower-extremity disability or pain, will be using the One-Step App, downloaded to their personal smartphones, in parallel with the usual rehabilitation treatments, during a one-month period. The study participants will be asked to carry the smartphone with the preinstalled app on them at all times, specifically on their injured foot.
All participants will also be required to undertake standard walking tests at the study initiation day (day 1) and on days 14 and 28 under similar conditions for between and within-subject comparison. Only during these tests will the subjects be using two smartphones preinstalled with the OneStep App, one attached to each leg, for a more accurate gait symmetry assessment.
During these 3 sessions, the study participants, as well as their physiotherapists, will be asked to fill in the study questionnaires.
Hypothesis:
Data collected using the OneStep App will allow an accurate and informative follow-up on patients' adherence and compliance with the rehabilitation regime and assist the physiotherapists in improving the efficacy of the rehabilitation process.
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