Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 7 , Pages 907-915 , July 2007

Reproducibility of Loading Measurements With Skin-Mounted Accelerometers During Walking

  • Tuomas Liikavainio, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Tuomas Liikavainio, MD, MSc, Dept of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, PO Box 1777, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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  • Timo Bragge

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
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  • Marko Hakkarainen, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
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  • Jukka S. Jurvelin, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
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  • Pasi A. Karjalainen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
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  • Jari P. Arokoski, MD, DMSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
    • Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland.

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 Supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and EVO (grant no. 5960416) from Kuopio University Hospital.No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(07)00260-2

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.03.031

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 7 , Pages 907-915 , July 2007

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