4. 4
Environmental
Factors (e)
Personal
factors
World Health Organization. How to use the ICF: A practical manual for using the International
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Exposure draft for comment. October 2013. Geneva: WHO
Body
functions (b)
Activity & participation (d)
Body
stuctures (s)
ICF
Part 1: Functioning & disabiltiy Part 2: Contextual factors
Part
Component
5. 5
Environmental
Factors (e)
Personal
factors
b710
Muscle power
b750
Motor reflexes
b750
Involuntary movement
http://www.icfillustration.com/icfil_eng/b/b75.html
Body
functions (b)
Activity & participation (d)
Body
stuctures (s)
b7 Neuromusculoskeletal and movement related functions
b710
Joint mobility
b715
Joint stability
b720
Bone mobility!?
b715
Muscle tone
b720
Muscle endurance
b71 & b72
Bone and joint
functions
b73 & b74
Muscle
functions
b75 – b78
Movement
functions
b755
Involuntary movement
reactions
b760
Control of voluntary
movement
b770
Gait pattern
b780
Sensations related to
muscles and movement
6. 6
Environmental
Factors (e)
Personal
factors
http://www.icfillustration.com/icfil_eng/b/b75.html
Body
functions (b)
Activity & participation (d)
Body
stuctures (s)
s7 Structures related to movement
s710 Head and neck
s720 Shoulder region
s730 Upper extremity
s740 Pelvic region
s750 Lower extermity
s760 Trunk
s7500 Thigh
s7501 Lower leg
s7502 Ankle and foot
s75000 Bones
s75001 Joints (proximal)
s75002 Muscles
s75003 Ligaments
7. 7
Environmental
Factors (e)
Personal
factors
d450
Walking
d470
Using transportation
http://www.icfillustration.com/icfil_eng/b/b75.html
Body
functions (b)
Activity & participation (d)
Body
stuctures (s)
d4 Mobility
d410
Changing position
d415
Maintaining position
b420
Transfers
d430
Lifting and carrying
d435
Moving with lower
extremity
b440
Fine hand use
d445
Hand and arm use
d455
Moving around
b460
Moving around in
different locations
d465
Moving around
using equipment
d475
Driving
b480
Riding animals for
transportation
d41 & d42
Changing basic
body position
d43 & d44
Carrying, moving &
handling objects
d45 & d46
Walking & moving
d47 & d48
Moving around
using transportation
8. 8
Environmental
Factors (e)
Personal
factors
d4600
Within home
http://www.icfillustration.com/icfil_eng/b/b75.html
Body
functions (b)
Activity & participation (d)
Body
stuctures (s)
D45 & d46 Walking and moving
d455
Moving around
b460
Moving around in
different locations
d450
Walking
d465
Moving around
using equipment
d4500
Walking short
distances
d4501
Walking long
distances
d4502
Walking on different
surfaces
d4502
Walking around
obstacless
d4550
Crawling
d4551
Climbing
d4552
Running
d4553
Jumping
d4554
Swimming
d4601
Within buildings
Other than home
d4602
Outside
9. 9
Health Condition
Disorder or disease
Body functions
& structure
Activity Participation
Gait pattern Walking
Environmental
factors
Personal
factors
Contextual Factors
10. Performance and Capacity
10
Performance is what a person does in their actual environment.
Capacity is what the person can do in an idealised environment
Gait analysis clearly measures Capacity
11. Summary
• Gait analysis only measures a very small
spectrum of the health condition.
• Need a much more holistic approach to
evaluate clinical outcomes…
• … but this is a course on measuring
walking!
11
13. Walking speed
• Best measured independently of gait
analysis.
• Walk tests as far as possible in a given
time
– 6 minute walk test (6MWT)
– 2 minute walk test (2MWT)
– 1 minute walk test (1MWT)
13
ATS statement: guidelines for the six-minute walk test.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2002. 166(1): p. 111-7.
14. 6 minute walk test
14
ATS statement: guidelines for the six-minute walk test.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2002. 166(1): p. 111-7.
15. 1 minute walk test
15
McDowell, B.C., et al., Validity of a 1 minute walk test for children with cerebral palsy.
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 2005. 47(11): p. 744-8.
16. 1 minute walk test
16
(After practice walk)
No equivalent data for self-selected walking speed?
McDowell, B.C., et al., Test-retest reliability of a 1-min walk test in children with bilateral
spastic cerebral palsy (BSCP). Gait and Posture, 2009. 29(2): p. 267-9.
18. Normalisation
• Required to remove variations in size and
weight of patient from the measures we
make.
• Most important for work with children where
there is greatest variablity in size.
• May not always be relevant.
18
20. Should really be tested
20
“Raw” “By mass” “Non-dimensional”
Schwartz MH, Koop SE, Bourke JL, Baker R.
A nondimensional normalization scheme for oxygen utilization data.
Gait Posture. 2006; 4(1):14-22.
21. Non-dimensional normalisation
• Removes most of the systematic variability
amongst gait parameters after children are
old enough to cooperate reliably enough for
gait analysis to be practical (age 5?)
21
22. Non-dimensional normalisation
Results do not have units.
Not familiar (particularly to referring clinicians).
Report as % of normative reference values.
22
24. Gait indices
Single number to reflect the quality of gait.
• Gillette Gait Index (GGI, normalcy index)
• Gait deviation index (GDI)
• Gait profile score (GPS)
24
25. Gillette Gait Index
• Originally called “Normalcy” index
• Doesn’t feel right!
– Small number of parameters
– Mixes temporal-spatial and kinematics
– Black box
– No significance to values
– Forgot to take the square root!
25
27. 27
GPS and GDI
Baker, R., et al., The gait profile score and movement analysis profile.
Gait Posture 2009;30(3):265-9.
Both measure how different
the gait pattern is from the
average normal trace
28. GPS and GDI
• GPS simple score (how many degrees
different from normal)
– About 6º is normal
– Girl scores 16º
• GDI –
– 100 = normal
– 10 points = one standard deviation
– Girl scores 74/100
28
29. GPS an GDI
The same measure scaled in two different ways.
29
퐆퐃퐈 ≈ ퟏퟎퟎ − ퟏퟎ ×
퐥퐧 푮푷푺 − 푨
푩
퐆퐏퐒 ≈ 퐞퐱퐩
퐁(ퟏퟎퟎ − 퐆퐃퐈)
ퟏퟎ
+ 푨
A = mean ln RMS , and B = sd ln RMS
Absolutely no point calculating both
– they tell you the same thing!
An New Method for Computing the Gait Deviation Index and Motion Analysis Profile
Schwartz, Rozumalski and Baker, GCMAS 2013
30. 30
GPS and MAP
Baker, R., et al., The gait profile score and movement analysis profile.
Gait Posture 2009;30(3):265-9.
32. Gait profile score vs GMFCS
Baker R, McGinley JL, Schwartz MH, Beynon S, Rozumalski A, Graham HK, et al.
The gait profile score and movement analysis profile.
Gait Posture. 2009; 30(3):265-9.
33. Gait profile score vs FAQ
Baker R, McGinley JL, Schwartz MH, Beynon S, Rozumalski A, Graham HK, et al.
The gait profile score and movement analysis profile.
Gait Posture. 2009; 30(3):265-9.
35. Gait profile score vs clinical opinion
Beynon S, McGinley JL, Dobson F, Baker R.
Correlations of the Gait Profile Score and the Movement Analysis Profile relative to clinical judgments.
Gait Posture. 201;32(1):129-32.
36. MAP vs clinical opinion
Beynon S, McGinley JL, Dobson F, Baker R.
Correlations of the Gait Profile Score and the Movement Analysis Profile relative to clinical judgments.
Gait Posture. 201;32(1):129-32.
37. Minimal clinically important difference
37
MCID = 1.6°
Baker R, McGinley JL, Schwartz M, Thomason P, Rodda J, Graham HK. The minimal clinically
important difference for the Gait Profile Score. Gait Posture. 2012;35(4):612-5.
39. Change in GPS following SEMLS
39
y = 0.16x + 8.10
R² = 0.07
y = 0.12x + 10.77
R² = 0.04
30°
25°
20°
15°
10°
5°
0°
GMFCS II
GMFCS III
95% normal range
90%
80%
50%
0° 5° 10° 15° 20° 25° 30°
Postoperative GPS
Preoperative GPS
40. Change in GPS following SEMLS
40
y = 0.84x - 8.10
R² = 0.68
y = 0.88x - 10.77
R² = 0.68
20°
15°
10°
5°
0°
-5°
-10°
GMFCS II
GMFCS III
95% normal range
90%
80%
50%
0° 5° 10° 15° 20° 25° 30°
Improvement (decrease) in GPS
Pre-operative GPS
+MCID
-MCID
41. Change in GPS following SEMLS
41
If we analyse all these children as a group
then we might conclude that surgery
improves gait quality for all children.
If we look at the underlying data we realise
that it only really benefits the more severely
affected children.
42. MCID
42
y = 0.84x - 8.10
R² = 0.68
y = 0.88x - 10.77
R² = 0.68
20°
15°
10°
5°
0°
-5°
-10°
GMFCS II
GMFCS III
95% normal range
90%
80%
50%
0° 5° 10° 15° 20° 25° 30°
Improvement (decrease) in GPS
Pre-operative GPS
+MCID
-MCID
66% of children had a change
of greater than MCID.
Improved
43. MCID
43
y = 0.84x - 8.10
R² = 0.68
y = 0.88x - 10.77
R² = 0.68
20°
15°
10°
5°
0°
-5°
-10°
GMFCS II
GMFCS III
95% normal range
90%
80%
50%
0° 5° 10° 15° 20° 25° 30°
Improvement (decrease) in GPS
Pre-operative GPS
+MCID
-MCID
66% of children had a change
of greater than MCID.
Improved
32% of children had a change a
change of less than MCID either way.
No change
44. MCID
44
y = 0.84x - 8.10
R² = 0.68
y = 0.88x - 10.77
R² = 0.68
20°
15°
10°
5°
0°
-5°
-10°
GMFCS II
GMFCS III
95% normal range
90%
80%
50%
0° 5° 10° 15° 20° 25° 30°
Improvement (decrease) in GPS
Pre-operative GPS
+MCID
-MCID
66% of children had a change
of greater than MCID.
Improved
32% of children had a change a
change of less than MCID either way.
No change
2% of children deteriorated by more
than MCID
Deteriorated
46. Detecting change
Statistically importance
To have 95% confidence that 2 measures
are different the change needs to be 3 times
the standard error of measurement (SEM)
• Need to know the SEM.
• Can be quite large for many clinical
measures.
46
47. Detecting change
Statistically importance
47
x3!
McGinley JL, Baker R, Wolfe R, Morris ME.
The reliability of three-dimensional kinematic gait measurements: a systematic review.
Gait Posture. 2009 Apr;29(3):360-9.
48. Detecting change
Statistically important change
48
x3!
McDowell BC, Hewitt V, Nurse A, Weston T, Baker R.
The variability of goniometric measurements in ambulatory children with spastic cerebral palsy.
Gait Posture. 2000 Oct;12(2):114-21.
50. Thanks for listening
Richard Baker
Professor of Clinical Gait Analysis
Blog: wwRichard.net
50
Notas del editor
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (known affectionately as the ICF) is a way of thinking about health conditons. It was the result of considerable debate within the World Health Organisation leading up to its endorsement by all 191 WHO Member States in the Fifty-fourth World Health Assembly in 2001 (resolution WHA 54.21) as the international standard to describe and measure health and disability.
It stresses health and functioning rather than disability and assumes that we can all have some decrement in health and thus some experience some disability. People with disabilities are thus seen on a continuum with the rest of us and not as in a specific category.
It also tries to provide an alternative to either a medical or social model of disability. In a medical model, disability is seen as a fearure of the individual. It needs to be addressed through individual treatment by health professionals. Thus a limitation in walking ability requires treatment of the individual to give them greater function. In a social model, disability is seen as a socially created problem rather than as an attirbute of any individual. It needs to be addressed by challenging society’s attitudes and structures. A limitation in walking might thus require the modification of the environment or the provision of a wheelchair. The ICF aims to incorporate elements of both models. (If you want to get technical it is an example of a biopsychosocial model).
Although the model is not percieved as hierarchical (the different aspects of the model are simply seen as interacting with each other) the [1] classification does have a hiearachical structure. It is divided into two parts.
Within Functioning and Disability, Body Functions and structures are separated out so that codes describing function are prefixed by a b and those describing structures by an s.
Activity and participation, on the other hand are grouped together with codes prefixed by the letter d.
[3] Following the underlying model Contextual factors are divided into Environmental (prefixed by an e) and Personal (which as I’ve already commented are not yet specified.
[4] The five boxes at this level are termed components.
Within body functions the most relevant chapter is 7 Neuromsuculoskeletal and movement related functions. This is subdivided using the second digit into three.
Bone and joint functions are subdivided into joint mobility and stability and bone mobility. I’m not particularly convinced by this last category and suspect this is a consequence of two many generalists on the WHO committee that drew upthe classification. Mobility isn’t really a characteristic of bones. Even for the scapula, pelvis, carpal and tarsal bones that are listed within this group it is essentially the joints that are immobile rather than the bones. It may sound paradoxical but the main contribution that bones make to movement is their rigidity and geometic alingment. I can’t see anywhere in the ICF that this can actually be captured. There is a further level of coding depending on the extent of the problem (single joint, several joints or a genearl joint condition).
Muscle function does seem to be reasonably sensibly divided into power (we’d pribably tend to refer to “strength” in clinical biomechanics), Tone and endurance. As with the jointe the next level down refers to the extent of the problem.
The final group here are Movement Functions. Where orthopaedists appear to have been missed out on defining the roles of bones and joints the neurologists would appear to have had a field day here. Not only are there 6 categories here but for many of these there is a further level of refinement. Involuntary movements for example is further sub-divided into Involuntary contractions, Tremor, Tics, Sterotypies (whatever they are), other and unspecified.
What is perhaps most significant here is that the gait pattern is listed as a movement pattern. We’ll come back to this a little later in the talk.
The classification of body structures is quite different in that it is by anatomical region first and then by the structures. Thus the second digit defines the broad region (the lower extremity for example), the [1] third a more specific segment (the thigh) and the [2] fourth the type of structure (bone, joint, muscle or ligament). Note that joints between segments are included with the more distal segment.
Within activity and participation Chapter 4 refers to mobility and is subdivided into four. [1]
The first group [2] includes changing and maintaining body position and trasferring oneself.
The second group [3] is divided into lifting and carrying, moveing with the lower extremity, fine hand use and hand and arm use.
The most relevant group for us [4] is the third which is subdivided into walking, moving around, moving around in different locations and moving around using equipment.
The final group [5] is includes moving around using transportation, driving and riding animals for transportation.
All of these are further sub-divided. We’ll only look a the subdivisions of the most relevant category walking and moving.
Walking [1] is divided into short and long distances, different surfaces and around obstacles.
Moving around [2] specifies types of movement other than walking.
Moving around in different locations specifies within the home, within building s other than home and outside.
The structure also allows us to think about what we are doing in gait analysis. Walking as we’ve just been considering it is seen as an activity [1]. The gait pattern, however, is considered to be a function of the neuromusculoskeletal system. Presumably we are talking about the production of a stereotypical cyclic pattern of movement that can move us from one place to another.
This makes it very clear that although the aim of our patient management may be to improve their ability to walk (an activity) the tests we are performing are a documentation of function.
Gait analysis is thus an analysis of function.
The classification also rerminds us of the importance of performance and capacity in relation to activity and participation. What we are measuring in the gait analysis laboratory is capacity. It is the ability to perform in an idealised environment on a flat uncluttered surface whilst able to focus fully on the task. What is generally important to the individual is performance, what they do in the real world. Patients, families and health professionals may need to be reminded that what we are measuring is capacity if the results conflict with their lived experience of performance.