A novel mobile wireless sensing system for realtime monitoring of posture and spine stress

2011 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 428-431

  El Sayed, Bilal ^a   Farra, Noura ^a   Moacdieh, Nadine ^a   Hajj, Hazem ^a   Haidar, Rachid ^a   Hajj, Ziad ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b Department of Orthopedic Surgery   (Israel)

Author keywords

inclinometer; load cell; mobile; real time monitoring; Spine health; wireless

Indexed keywords

INCLINOMETER; LOAD CELL; MOBILE; REAL TIME MONITORING; SPINE HEALTH; WIRELESS;

ANIMATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; ERGONOMICS; HEALTH; MOBILE DEVICES; SENSORS;

MONITORING;

EID: 79957879340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MECBME.2011.5752156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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