1st Joint ESMAC-GCMAS Meeting - Análise de Marcha
1st Joint ESMAC-GCMAS Meeting - Análise de Marcha
1st Joint ESMAC-GCMAS Meeting - Análise de Marcha
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data will have to obtain ethical approval from their own institutions to contribute data.<br />
To illustrate the potential of the GAITABASE and to test whether users in different countries<br />
would be able to contribute data, a mock cohort study of progress of children following single<br />
event multi-level surgery for children with diplegic cerebral palsy was set up. Users in USA,<br />
Europe, Australia and New Zealand were approached to contribute pre-operative and one year<br />
follow-up data.<br />
Results<br />
The GAITABASE web interface allowed the user to add, view, edit, import, and export<br />
patient’s gait data. Users from two centres in the USA, one in Europe and one in Australia<br />
contributed data of 5 CP children to the mock cohort study. The Figure below shows preoperative<br />
and follow-up data of one CP child with mean ±1SD of 10 children without<br />
pathology.<br />
Patients filter<br />
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Sessions filter<br />
Figure 1. Kinematics of CP patient pre (blue) and post (red)<br />
intervention. Grey area represents normative gait patterns.<br />
Discussion<br />
This exercise proved that the concept of the GAITABASE can work. Several of the users<br />
approached for gait data envisaged problems in obtaining ethical approval to contribute data<br />
but those who set out to obtain this were able to complete the process and release the data<br />
within two weeks. Future work on the GAITABASE will inclu<strong>de</strong> procedures for ensuring the<br />
quality of the data stored within it.<br />
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