Concurrent Validity and Reliability of a New Smartphone Application for Measuring Cervical Range of Motion in Healthy Individuals.

Journal of Allied Health Pub Date : 2024-01-01

Farzan Molaei, Abbas Tabatabaei, Shirin Azizi, Shahab Asgari, Abbas F Pezeshk, Neena K Sharma

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Abstract

Background: Range of motion (ROM) measurement is an important part of physical therapy assessment and patient progress. Smartphones are user-friendly instruments and if proven to be reliable and valid, clinicians can use them for a variety of tasks including ROM measurement.

Objectives: To determine concurrent validity and intra- and inter-rater reliability of the PhysioMaster application in measuring cervical ROM in both Android and iOS operating systems.

Methods: Forty-five healthy individuals (age 31.75 ± 11.94 yrs; 18 men, 27 women) completed this study. Two raters measured cervical ROM, three times each, using an Android phone for intra-rater and inter-rater reliability. With an interval time of 1-7 days after the first session, measurements were repeated by one of the raters once to measure intersession reliability. Validity was estimated by one of the raters using iPhone and Android phones one at a time while 3D motion analysis (3DMA) recorded cervical movements simultaneously. For reliability, intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), and for validity, Pearson correlation coefficient and Bland-Altman plots were used.

Results: ICC values of ≥0.76 and ≥0.84 demonstrated excellent intra-rater and inter-rater reliability, respectively. For concurrent validity, correlation between each phone and 3DMA was nearly perfect for all movements (0.93 ≤ r ≤ 0.97).

Conclusion: PhysioMaster appears to be a valid and reliable application for measuring cervical ROM in healthy individuals.

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用于测量健康人颈椎活动范围的新型智能手机应用程序的并发有效性和可靠性。

背景：运动范围（ROM）测量是物理治疗评估和患者进展的重要组成部分。智能手机是方便用户使用的工具，如果被证明是可靠有效的，临床医生可以将其用于包括 ROM 测量在内的各种任务：目的：确定 PhysioMaster 应用程序在安卓和 iOS 操作系统中测量颈椎 ROM 的并发有效性以及评分者内部和评分者之间的可靠性：45 名健康人（年龄 31.75 ± 11.94 岁；18 名男性，27 名女性）完成了这项研究。两名评分员使用安卓手机测量颈椎 ROM，每人测量三次，以获得评分员内部和评分员之间的可靠性。在第一次测量后的 1-7 天内，由其中一名测量者重复测量一次，以测量测量者间的可靠性。在三维运动分析（3DMA）同时记录颈椎运动的情况下，由其中一名评分员使用 iPhone 和 Android 手机各测量一次，以评估有效性。信度采用类内相关系数（ICC），效度采用皮尔逊相关系数和布兰德-阿尔特曼图：ICC值分别为≥0.76和≥0.84，表明评分者内部和评分者之间的可靠性极佳。在并发有效性方面，每部手机与 3DMA 之间的相关性在所有动作中都接近完美（0.93 ≤ r ≤ 0.97）：结论：PhysioMaster 似乎是测量健康人颈椎活动度的有效而可靠的应用程序。

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