Guoqing Zhong, Shuai Huang, Ziyue Zhang, Zhenyan Xie, Huazhang Liu, Wenhan Huang, Xiaolong Zeng, Lianting Hu, Huiying Liang, Yu Zhang
Generalized joint hypermobility (GJH) describes the situation that the range of joint motion exceeds the normal range. GJH is found to increase the risk of knee-related injury and osteoarthritis, challenging the athletic ability of the population. Gait signals are directly related to hip and knee athletic conditions, and have been shown to have significant changes with GJH by our previous research. But gait data are noisy, and vary with age, gender, weight, and ethnicity, which makes them hard to analyze with traditional statistical methods...
August 14, 2023: Computers in Biology and Medicine