The Potential Role of Objective Activity Monitoring in Off-Site Follow-Ups Post-Bariatric Surgery

Abstract

Title: The Potential Role of Objective Activity Monitoring in Off-Site Follow-Ups Post-Bariatric Surgery.Background: Weight gain and attendance at follow-up visits after bariatric surgery are of great concern for the multidisciplinary care team. Geography and schedules make attending follow-up visits increasingly difficult as time after surgery goes on. Recently, inexpensive commercially available activity monitors have become more common place, making information concerning physical activity and sedentary behaviours deliverable online, allowing for important patient lifestyle information to be transmitted to the multidisciplinary care team. The purpose of this study was to determine if off-site objectively monitored physical activity and sedentary time can describe health measures such as total body fat, abdominal adipose tissue (AAT), and weight maintenance long-term post-bariatric surgery.

Determining Differences in Perioperative Functional Mobility Patterns in Lumbar Decompression Versus Fusion Patients Using Smartphone Activity Data

“…Previous reports using smartphone-based accelerometers, which track a patient's daily steps, have demonstrated that such mobility data can successfully quantify and characterize patient outcomes after surgery. [6][7][8][9] The relationship between patient mobilization and surgical outcomes is especially salient in spine surgery, given the nuanced impact lumbar spine pathology can have on preoperative and postoperative patient activity. 10 For example, greater physical activity after lumbar spine surgery is generally associated with both improved outcomes 11 and increased pain.…”