Is it Feasible to Use a Low-Cost Wearable Sensor for Heart Rate Monitoring within an Upper Limb Training in Spinal Cord Injured Patients?: A Pilot Study.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Salas-Monedero, Miriam Lozano-Berrio, Vicente Cazorla-Martínez, María-Jesús Ceruelo-Abajo, Silvia Gil-Agudo, Ángel Hernández-Sánchez, Sonsoles Jiménez-Díaz, José-Fernando DelosReyes-Guzmán, Ana
Editor	Zarrabi, Ali
Copyright Year	2022
Abstract	(1) Background: Cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) patients have impairment in the autonomic nervous system, reflected in the cardiovascular adaption level during the performance of upper limb (UL) activities carried out in the rehabilitation process. This adaption level could be measured from the heart rate (HR) by means of wearable technologies. Therefore, the objective was to analyze the feasibility of using Xiaomi Mi Band 5 wristband (XMB5) for HR monitoring in these patients during the performance of UL activities; (2) Methods: The HR measurements obtained from XMB5 were compared to those obtained by the professional medical equipment Nonin LifeSense II capnograph and pulse oximeter (NLII) in static and dynamic conditions. Then, four healthy people and four cervical SCI patients performed a UL training based on six experimental sessions; (3) Results: the correlation between the HR measurements from XMB5 and NLII devices was strong and positive in healthy people (r = 0.921 and r = 0.941 (p < 0.01) in the static and dynamic conditions, respectively). Then, XMB5 was used within the experimental sessions, and the HR oscillation range measured was significantly higher in healthy individuals than in patients; (4) Conclusions: The XMB5 seems to be feasible for measuring the HR in this biomedical application in SCI patients.
Journal	Bioengineering
Volume Number	9
PubMed Central reference number	PMC9774606
Issue Number	12
PubMed reference number	36550969
e-ISSN	23065354
DOI	10.3390/bioengineering9120763
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2022-12-03
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). © 2022 by the authors.
Subject Keyword	upper limb training spinal cord injury heart rate wearable devices biomedical application
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Bioengineering