A Wearable System to Monitor Tai Chi Practice

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital24 enrolled

Overview

The goal of this research study is to show that features derived from data gathered using SHIMMER wearable sensor platform can capture adherence and proficiency in the performance of exercises that are part of Tai Chi interventions.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Healthy

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Young style Tai Chi practitioners Exclusion Criteria: * Any movement impairment that will impede Tai Chi movements performance

Locations (1)

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Biomarkers of adherence and proficiency

Data gathered using SHIMMER devices will be segmented to derive signal features. These features will be then used to feed a pattern recognition algorithm the output of which indicates whether a specific Tai Chi movement of interest has been performed.

Time frame: 1 day

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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