Technology Vanessa Carvalho Technology Vanessa Carvalho

Exploring the Motio Report: A Quick Guide to Understanding its Insights 

Patients with lower limb prostheses face unique challenges in their rehabilitation journey. The steps taken to evaluate a prosthetic user’s functional level vary between practitioners. Most frequently, it combines the patient's information with the clinician's own in-office evaluation, both of which can be fairly subjective. To assess their progress and determine the effectiveness of interventions, outcome measures are essential tools used by clinicians. These measures provide valuable data that guide treatment decisions, enhance communication among healthcare providers, and improve patient outcomes, but most of them only really represent how a patient acts within the walls of an O&P Clinic or Rehabilitation Center.

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Technology Leonor Valente Technology Leonor Valente

Activity Monitoring in Prosthetic Users: Psychometric Properties of Motio StepWatch™ 

Self-reported activities of lower limb prosthetic users and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) have limited reliability and objectiveness, which has led to an increasing interest in accurate real-world activity monitoring. For prosthetic users, monitoring activity levels can be important for several reasons, including evaluating the effectiveness of their prosthetic device, assessing progress during rehabilitation, and promoting physical activity for overall health and well-being ​[1–3]​.

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