Estimating Youth Locomotion Ground Reaction Forces Using an Accelerometer-Based Activity Monitor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Neugebauer, Jennifer M ^a   Hawkins, David A ^a   Beckett, Laurel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GAIT; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNNING; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MOVEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUNNING; WALKING;

EID: 84868145130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048182     Document Type: Article

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