A durable, low-cost electrogoniometer for dynamic measurement of joint trajectories

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 546-552

  Wang, Po T ^a   King, Christine E ^a   Do, An H ^b   Nenadic, Zoran ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied kinesiology; Articular goniometry; Joint range of motion; Regression analysis; Transducers

Indexed keywords

APPLIED KINESIOLOGY; ARTICULAR GONIOMETRY; BIOMETRIC APPLICATIONS; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT; ELECTROGONIOMETERS; FLEXIBLE SENSOR; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HINGE JOINTS; INDEX FINGER; JOINT RANGE OF MOTION; JOINT TRAJECTORIES; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL; QUALITY OF JOINT; STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; BIOMETRICS; GONIOMETERS; SENSORS;

LINEAR REGRESSION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIOSENSOR; CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELBOW; ELECTROGONIOMETER; EXTENSOR REFLEX; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; JOINT MOBILIZATION; KINESIOLOGY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFLEX; REHABILITATION CARE; RELIABILITY; WRIST;

ADULT; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955961280     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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