Reliability and clinical correlates of 3D-accelerometry based gait analysis outcomes according to age and fall-risk

Gait and Posture

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 366-372

  Bautmans, Ivan ^a,b,c   Jansen, Bart ^a   Van Keymolen, Bart ^a   Mets, Tony ^a,b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c Stichting Opleiding Musculoskeletal Therapie (SOMT)   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Fall risk; Gait; Muscle fatigue; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMETRY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALL RISK; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WALKING SPEED;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BELGIUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INCIDENCE; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952007542     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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