We would like two asses postural sway using two Kistler force plates combined, so that the participant stays with one foot on each force plate. We need some advice on how to adapt our Matlab protocol. So far we have assesed postural sway using just one Kistler force plate and a Matlab protocol (Bey et al. 2018 "The data were acquired with the software BioWare 5.3.0.7 using a sampling rate of 200 Hz. The data were filtered using a 10th order digital low pass Butterworth filter at a 7 Hz cut-off frequency and analyzed with MATLAB (R2012a, 64 Bit, The Mathworks,Natick, USA)." Has anyone any idea what we need to do/how we need to change our Matlab protocol for a measurement with two force plates?
Dear Dr. Legerlotz,
I may have misunderstood your question, however, I hope this Kistler paper may be useful in your research (page 3) : "Global coordinate system (treat multiple force plates as one)". Please, check the manuals of the platforms - or the service support - if these equations are valid for all Kistler models .
Best Regards,
Wagner de Godoy
Brazil
Thanks ever so much! Sometimes the answer is simpler than anticipated.... :-)
Kind regards
Kirsten
Dear Kirsten
We have done this previously with AMTI forceplates, but the idea is the same (here is the link for our paper - Article Center of Pressure Displacement of Standing Posture during R...
).We used the formulas proposed by Winter the paper attached.
Kind Regards
Rogerio
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