Reproducibility of Loading Measurements With Skin-Mounted Accelerometers During Walking

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 907-915

  Liikavainio, Tuomas ^a   Bragge, Timo ^b   Hakkarainen, Marko ^b   Jurvelin, Jukka S ^b   Karjalainen, Pasi A ^b   Arokoski, Jari P ^a,b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Biomechanics; Gait; Rehabilitation; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; GAIT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 34250742039     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.03.031     Document Type: Article

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