@article{ref1,
title="Usefulness of mobile devices in the diagnosis and rehabilitation of patients with dizziness and balance disorders: a state of the art review",
journal="Clinical interventions in aging",
year="2020",
author="Gawronska, Anna and Pajor, Anna and Zamyslowska-Szmytke, Ewa and Rosiak, Oskar and Józefowicz-Korczyńska, Magdalena",
volume="15",
number="",
pages="2397-2406",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The gold standard for objective body posture examination is posturography. Body movements are detected through the use of force platforms that  assess static and dynamic balance (conventional posturography). In recent years, new  technologies like wearable sensors (mobile posturography) have been applied during  complex dynamic activities to diagnose and rehabilitate balance disorders. They are  used in healthy people, especially in the aging population, for detecting falls in  the older adults, in the rehabilitation of different neurological, osteoarticular,  and muscular system diseases, and in vestibular disorders. Mobile devices are  portable, lightweight, and less expensive than conventional posturography. The  vibrotactile system can consist of an accelerometer (linear acceleration  measurement), gyroscopes (angular acceleration measurement), and magnetometers  (heading measurement, relative to the Earth's magnetic field). The sensors may be  mounted to the trunk (most often in the lumbar region of the spine, and the pelvis),  wrists, arms, sternum, feet, or shins. Some static and dynamic clinical tests have  been performed with the use of wearable sensors. Smartphones are widely used as a  mobile computing platform and to evaluate the results or monitor the patient during  the movement and rehabilitation. There are various mobile applications for  smartphone-based balance systems. Future research should focus on validating the  sensitivity and reliability of mobile device measurements compared to conventional  posturography. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Smartphone based mobile devices are limited to one sensor  lumbar level posturography and offer basic clinical evaluation. Single or multi  sensor mobile posturography is available from different manufacturers and offers  single to multi-level measurements, providing more data and in some instances even  performing sophisticated clinical balance tests.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1176-9092",
doi="10.2147/CIA.S289861",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S289861"
}