A practical method for the detection of freezing of gait in patients with Parkinson’s disease

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 9, Issue , 2014, Pages 1709-1719

  Kwon, Yuri ^a   Park, Sang Hoon ^a   Kim, Ji Won ^a   Ho, Yeji ^a   Jeon, Hyeong Min ^a   Bang, Min Jung ^a   Jung, Gu In ^a   Lee, Seon Min ^b   Eom, Gwang Moon ^a   Koh, Seong Beom ^b   Lee, Jeong Whan ^a   Jeon, Heung Seok ^a  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Detection system; Freezing of gait; Frequency domain; Parkinson s disease; Time domain

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FREEZING OF GAIT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; MICROPROCESSOR; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDING; TIME; WALKING; ACCELEROMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DEVICES; FALLING; GAIT APRAXIA; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; WEIGHT BEARING;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETRY; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GAIT APRAXIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84908267611     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S69773     Document Type: Article

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