Megan K O'Brien, Francesco Lanotte, Rushmin Khazanchi, Sung Yul Shin, Richard L Lieber, Roozbeh Ghaffari, John A Rogers, Arun Jayaraman
OBJECTIVES: Inpatient rehabilitation represents a critical setting for stroke treatment, providing intensive, targeted therapy and task-specific practice to minimize a patient's functional deficits and facilitate their reintegration into the community. However, impairment and recovery vary greatly after stroke, making it difficult to predict a patient's future outcomes or response to treatment. In this study, the authors examined the value of early-stage wearable sensor data to predict 3 functional outcomes (ambulation, independence, and risk of falling) at rehabilitation discharge...
January 3, 2024: Physical Therapy