Two different approaches for the assessment of an individual’s movement capabilities and physical activity are available and have to be clearly distinguished:
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Clinical gait analysis is a laboratory-based, i.e., stationary procedure that enables a qualitative assessment, i.e., it describes how well patients are able to move or how much they are limited in their movement capabilities.
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Activity assessment in daily life, ADL-monitoring is not confined to a lab environment and assesses the quantity of movement or the activity level by describing how much patients are using their individual capabilities and which level of mobility is being used.
Both approaches have their specific advantages and disadvantages, which have to be considered before application of either one. However, they may be complementary for a full description of an individual’s movement characteristics. In the future, marker-less motion capturing systems might offer an alternative approach halfway between the existing one, i.e., these systems might provide detailed motion analysis in home-based environments.
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Rosenbaum, D., Brandes, M. (2008). Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects of Movement: The Discrepancy Between Clinical Gait Analysis and Activities of Daily Life. In: Rosenhahn, B., Klette, R., Metaxas, D. (eds) Human Motion. Computational Imaging and Vision, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6693-1_16
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