ReviewPM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation2018
Wearable Movement Sensors for Rehabilitation: A Focused Review of Technological and Clinical Advances.
Review in PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 145 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
145 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation for Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Advancements in Wearable Sensor Technologies for Health Monitoring in Terms of Clinical Applications, Rehabilitation, and Disease Risk Assessment: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Pooled it
- Smart device-assisted telerehabilitation versus conventional rehabilitation after total nee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Pooled it
- Movement Disorders and Smart Wrist Devices: A Comprehensive Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
- Use of commercially available wearable devices for physical rehabilitation in healthcare: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of Wearable Sensor-Based Exercise on Musculoskeletal Disorders in Individuals With Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Diagnostic Accuracy and Clinical Applications of Wearable Movement Sensors for Knee Joint Rehabilitation.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Pooled it
- Wearable Devices for Biofeedback Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis to Design Application Rules and Estimate the Effectiveness on Balance and Gait Outcomes in Neurological Diseases.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Pooled it
- Utilization of wearable technology to assess gait and mobility post-stroke: a systematic review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2021Pooled it
- Validity and Reliability of Wearable Sensors for Joint Angle Estimation: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Pooled it
- A Sensor-Based Feedback Device Stimulating Daily Life Upper Extremity Activity in Stroke Patients: A Feasibility Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Trial
- Immediate improvements in post-stroke gait biomechanics are induced with both real-time limb position and propulsive force biofeedback.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2023Trial
- Wearable Technologies for Gait Instability Rehabilitation: Mechanisms, Clinical Evidence, and Future Directions.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Sensor-Based Movement Quality Assessment and Biofeedback for Rehabilitation Exercise: A Scoping Review with Implications for Home-Based and Remote Rehabilitation.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Letter to the editor: "Forearm fractures treated with elastic stable intramedullary nailing: Is casting still necessary?"Journal of children's orthopaedics · 2026Article
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- Global Trends in Virtual Reality Research on Motor Rehabilitation from 2005 to 2025: A Bibliometric Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Robust displacement estimation from filament-based soft sensors using a parallel attention-enhanced LSTM for rehabilitation monitoring.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Agreement Between Novice Visual Assessment and Classifications Derived from Markerless Motion Capture During Sit-to-Stand Performance in Healthy Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Strategic Management of Design and Conceptualization Factors for Wearable Postural Rehabilitation Devices: A Causal Interdependency Analysis.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
85 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedCorrigendum.2018
Authors and funding
7 authors.
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Abstract
Recent technologic advancements have enabled the creation of portable, low-cost, and unobtrusive sensors with tremendous potential to alter the clinical practice of rehabilitation. The application of wearable sensors to track movement has emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance the care provided to patients with neurologic or musculoskeletal conditions. These sensors enable quantification of motor behavior across disparate patient populations and emerging research shows their potential for identifying motor biomarkers, differentiating between restitution and compensation motor recovery mechanisms, remote monitoring, telerehabilitation, and robotics. Moreover, the big data recorded across these applications serve as a pathway to personalized and precision medicine. This article presents state-of-the-art and next-generation wearable movement sensors, ranging from inertial measurement units to soft sensors. An overview of clinical applications is presented across a wide spectrum of conditions that have potential to benefit from wearable sensors, including stroke, movement disorders, knee osteoarthritis, and running injuries. Complementary applications enabled by next-generation sensors that will enable point-of-care monitoring of neural activity and muscle dynamics during movement also are discussed.
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