Accuracy and responsiveness of the stepwatch activity monitor and ActivPAL in patients with COPD when walking with and without a rollator

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1317-1322

  Cindy Ng, Li Whye ^a   Jenkins, Sue ^a,b,c   Hill, Kylie ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ambulatory instrumentation; COPD; Motor activity

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ERGOMETRY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIROMETRY; WALKING; WALKING AID;

ACCELERATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERGOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIROMETRY; WALKERS; WALKING;

EID: 84861639365     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2011.641666     Document Type: Article

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