Does the evaluation of gait quality during daily life provide insight into fall risk? A novel approach using 3-Day accelerometer recordings

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 742-752

  Weiss, Aner ^a   Brozgol, Marina ^a   Dorfman, Moran ^a   Herman, Talia ^a   Shema, Shirley ^a   Giladi, Nir ^a,b   Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^a,b,c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

accelerometer; activities of daily living; activity monitoring; aging; fall risk; gait; mHealth

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FALL RISK; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; GAIT; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MOBILIZATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SPECTROMETRY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ACCELEROMETER; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ACTIVITY MONITORING; AGING; FALL RISK; GAIT; MHEALTH;

ACCELEROMETRY; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84884581901     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968313491004     Document Type: Article

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