Feasibility of a Respiratory Movement Evaluation Tool to Quantify Thoracoabdominal Movement for Neuromuscular Diseases

Abstract

We developed a novel method of quantifying respiratory movement called RMET that was feasible to use in daily clinical practice.

Reliability of a computational model for evaluating thoracoabdominal mobility in newborns: a cross-sectional study

“…Different systems have been proposed to assess compartmental mobility in a number of pathologies and age ranges [1,[5][6][7][8][9]. Some currently available methods have been designed to evaluate lung volume, capacities, limitations and breathing patterns in NB in an e cient and non-invasive manner, such as optoelectronic plethysmography (OEP) [9,10], inductive respiratory plethysmography (IRP) [11] and electrical impedance tomography (EIT) [12].…”

“…The experienced examiner obtained good reliability (mean intraclass correlation coe cient (ICC): 0.98; mean MDC: 0.3) and inter-observer agreement (mean ICC: 0.97; mean MDC: 0.35) for all measures[25]. Despite being obtained using a different population from ours, these ndings corroborate those of the present study, demonstrating excellent inter and intra-examiner reliability in the investigation of thoracoabdominal kinematic measurements using photogrammetry.From this perspective, bio-photogrammetry has also been applied to evaluate respiratory function by analyzing thoracoabdominal kinematics and synchrony[8,17,18]. However, it is important to underscore that the vast majority of current studies were carried out in adolescents or adults, as in the study bySarro et al (2018) [25].…”

Reliability of a computational model for evaluating thoracoabdominal mobility in newborns: a cross-sectional study

“…The experienced examiner obtained good reliability (mean intraclass correlation coe cient (ICC): 0.98; mean MDC: 0.3) and inter-observer agreement (mean ICC: 0.97; mean MDC: 0.35) for all measures[25]. Despite being obtained using a different population from ours, these ndings corroborate those of the present study, demonstrating excellent inter and intra-examiner reliability in the investigation of thoracoabdominal kinematic measurements using photogrammetry.From this perspective, bio-photogrammetry has also been applied to evaluate respiratory function by analyzing thoracoabdominal kinematics and synchrony[8,17,18]. However, it is important to underscore that the vast majority of current studies were carried out in adolescents or adults, as in the study bySarro et al (2018) [25].…”