Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 119-125 , March 2010

Can an accelerometer enhance the utility of the Timed Up & Go Test when evaluating patients with Parkinson's disease?

  • Aner Weiss

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Gait & Neurodynamics, Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Talia Herman

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Gait & Neurodynamics, Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Meir Plotnik

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Gait & Neurodynamics, Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Marina Brozgol

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Gait & Neurodynamics, Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Inbal Maidan

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Gait & Neurodynamics, Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Nir Giladi

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Gait & Neurodynamics, Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • Dept of Neurology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Tanya Gurevich

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Gait & Neurodynamics, Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • Dept of Neurology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Jeffrey M. Hausdorff

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Gait & Neurodynamics, Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • Dept of Physical Therapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • Division on Aging, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Laboratory for Gait & Neurodynamics, Tel.: Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel. Tel.: +972 36974958; fax: +972 36947514.

Received 31 March 2009 ,Revised 17 August 2009 ,Accepted 26 October 2009.

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PII: S1350-4533(09)00231-8

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.10.015

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 119-125 , March 2010

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