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accelerometry

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accelerometry [ak‚sel·ə′räm·ə·drē]
(industrial engineering)
The quantitative determination of acceleration and deceleration in the entire human body or a part of the body in the performance of a task.


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The study was conducted on 14 subjects who wore actigraphy armbands that measure body temperature, ambient temperature, position sense, and accelerometry for approximately 23 days.
Preventive screening includes measuring current level of physical activity by means of accelerometry and self-report using the Yale Physical Activity Survey (DiPietro, 1996); reporting the percentage of people with self-reported falls; quantifying the percentage of participants with fatigue using the Brief Fatigue Inventory (Mendoza et al.
2008): Concurrent validity of accelerometry to measure gait in Parkinsons Disease.
 
 
 
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