Abstract Summary
Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (sTBI) commonly leads to gait and balance impairments, but motor strategies adopted by people who suffered of a sTBI have not been characterized yet. Therefore, the aim of the study was to objectively characterize a sTBI population using a set of inertial sensors to describe their motor strategies. Ten people with a sTBI and 15 healthy controls were asked to perform a 10 Meter-Walking-Test and an instrumented Fukuda-Stepping-Test while wearing 5 inertial sensors. Results show that sTBI are less able to attenuate accelerations from the lower to the upper body levels, display gait asymmetry and less repeatable trunk/pelvis angular velocity patterns during stepping than healthy controls. Results support the adoption of an instrumented assessment with this population, with the aim to support clinicians, towards the development of personalized rehabilitation treatments based on patient’s personal needs.
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