Objective To conduct systematic review to better define how medical mobile applications
(apps) have been used in environments relevant to physical medicine and rehabilitation …

Background To describe the iterative development process and final version of
'MobileMums': a physical activity intervention for women with young children (< 5 years) …

Background Physical conditions through gait and other functional task are parameters to
consider for frailty detection. The aim of the present study is to measure and describe the …

The aim of this study was to identify the series of kinematic variables demonstrating the
greatest precision in discriminating between the function of two groups of elderly persons …

Background The diagnosis of frailty is based on physical impairments and clinicians have
indicated that early detection is one of the most effective methods for reducing the severity of …

Background: Clinical frailty syndrome is a common geriatric syndrome, which is
characterized by physiological reserve decreases and increased vulnerability. The changes …

Background Epidemiological studies on physical activity often lack inexpensive, objective,
valid, and reproducible tools for measuring physical activity levels of participants. Novel …

Background: The popularity of smartphones has led researchers to ask if they can replace
traditional tools for assessing free-living physical activity. Our purpose was to establish proof …

Activity monitors provide an objective mechanism for evaluating patient function. It is unclear
what similarities or unique information may be yielded using different analyses. Fifteen …

This paper introduces a function dedicated to the estimation of total energy expenditure
(TEE) of daily activities based on data from accelerometers integrated into smartphones. The …