A motion analysis tool without body sensors developed for the objective assessment of movement in children with SMA

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To overcome the shortcomings of functional scales in children such as CHOP-INTEND, German researchers have developed and tested a method for capturing and analyzing movement in ten children with SMA (eight with type I and two type II), aged 2 to 46 months. 

  • the commercial device used (KineMAT) allows to record the child’s movements objectively in three dimensions of space but without having to place sensors on the child’s body. 
  • the correlation with the CHOP-INTEND figures obtained in parallel is quite acceptable.

 

Quantitative Motion Measurements Based on Markerless 3D Full-Body Tracking in Children with SMA Highly Correlate with Standardized Motor Assessments. Blaschek A, Hesse N, Warken B, et al. J Neuromuscul Dis. 2021 (Juillet).

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