Accelerometry based assessment of gait parameters in children

Gait and Posture

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 482-486

  Brandes, Mirko ^a   Zijlstra, Wiebren ^b   Heikens, Sander ^c   van Lummel, Rob ^c   Rosenbaum, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c McRoberts BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accelerometry; Children; Inverted pendulum model; Steps; Walking distance

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DEVICE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING SPEED;

ACCELERATION; CHILD; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; WALKING;

EID: 33750297823     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2005.12.006     Document Type: Article

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