3D gait assessment in young and elderly subjects using foot-worn inertial sensors

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2999-3006

  Mariani, Benoit ^a   Hoskovec, Constanze ^b   Rochat, Stephane ^b   Büla, Christophe ^b   Penders, Julien ^c   Aminian, Kamiar ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D gait analysis; Elderly; Foot clearance; Inertial sensors; Turning

Indexed keywords

3D GAIT ANALYSIS; ACCURACY AND PRECISION; CLINICAL APPLICATION; ELDERLY; FOOT CLEARANCE; GAIT CYCLES; GAIT INITIATION; GAIT PARAMETERS; INERTIAL SENSOR; MEAN AGES; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; OPTICAL MOTION CAPTURE; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; SPATIAL PARAMETERS; STRIDE LENGTH; TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY; TURNING ANGLES; U-SHAPED; WEARABLE SYSTEMS;

GAIT ANALYSIS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOOT CLEARANCE; FOOT WORN INERTIAL SENSOR; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRIDE LENGTH; STRIDE VELOCITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TURNING ANGLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149282306     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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