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Background: Identifying older adults with increased fall risk due to poor postural control on a large scale is only possible through omnipresent and low cost measuring devices such as the inertial measurement units (IMU) embedded in smartphones. However, the correlation between smartphone measures of postural stability and state-of-the-art force plate measures has never been assessed in a large sample allowing us to take into account age as a covariate.
Research Question: How reliably can postural stability be measured with a smartphone embedded IMU in comparison to a force plate?
Methods: We assessed balance in 97 adults aged 50-90 years in four different conditions (eyes open, eyes closed, semi-tandem and dual-task) in the anterio-posterior and medio-lateral directions. We used six different parameters (root mean square and average absolute value of COP displacement, velocity and acceleration) for the force plate and two different parameters (root mean square and average absolute value of COM acceleration) for the smartphone.
Results: Test-retest reliability was smaller for the smartphone than for the force plate (intra class correlation) but both devices could equally well detect differences between conditions (similar Cohen's d). Parameters from the smartphone and the force plate, with age regressed out, were moderately correlated (robust correlation coefficients of around 0.5).
Significance: This study comprehensively documents test-retest reliability and effect sizes for stability measures obtained with a force plate and smartphone as well as correlations between force plate and smartphone measures based on a large sample of older adults. Our large sample size allowed us to reliably determine the strength of the correlations between force plate and smartphone measures. The most important practical implication of our results is that more repetitions or longer trials are required when using a smartphone instead of a force plate to assess balance.
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