Wireless orientation sensors: Their suitability to measure head movement for neck pain assessment

Manual Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 380-385

  Jasiewicz, Jan M ^a   Treleaven, Julia ^b   Condie, Peter ^a   Jull, Gwendolen ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Head movement; Inertial sensors; Neck pain; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KINEMATICS; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NECK PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SENSOR;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NECK PAIN; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROTATION;

EID: 34548218634     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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