Research Article

Differences in Trunk Kinematic between Frail and Nonfrail Elderly Persons during Turn Transition Based on a Smartphone Inertial Sensor

Table 2

Acceleration-based values from the turning transition ( ).

MeanSD
Frail ( )Healthy ( )Frail ( )Healthy ( ) P value

.stopwatch (s)5.3292.8151.3442.0692.000<0.001
.acc.min (m/s2) 0.9622.43341.000.003
.acc.max (m/s2) 0.7002.86526.50<0.001
.acc.min (m/s2) 0.9456.93714.00<0.001
.acc.min (m/s2) 1.6192.43835.00<0.001
.acc.mean (m/s2) 1.5531.33136.000.002
rv.acc.max (m/s2)3.63411.9851.1656.52341.000.003
rv.acc.min (m/s2)0.6211.4030.6720.98038.000.002
rv.acc.mean (m/s2)1.9164.9950.7171.04645.000.005

: -axis; : -axis; : -axis; acc: acceleration; t: time; max: maximum; min: minimum; rv: resultant vector; : -Mann-Whitney.