RERC on Technologies to Support Aging-in-Place for People with Long-Term Disabilities

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects roughly 2.3 million individuals worldwide – many of whom experience walking impairments. Many traditional measures to quantify walking, such as self-reports and in-lab observations and performance tests, do not fully characterize walking in the real-world. Wearable technology may provide a solution to the limitations of current clinical and lab-based measures for people with MS. A new review article by grad student Mikaela Frechette, Dr. Jake Sosnoff & colleagues in Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, finds that wearable technology has the ability to provide objective, comprehensive, and sensitive measures of gait in people with MS by enabling easy and continuous remote gait quality monitoring that can take place outside a typical lab. Read the full article by Frechette, Meyer, Tulipani, Gurchiek, McGinnis, & Sosnoff. Mikaela was granted her MS in Kinesiology (May 2020) for her thesis entitled “The validity, reliability, and sensitivity of a smartphone-based seated postural control assessment in wheelchair users”, as part of the SteadyWheels project.