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A Systematic Review of Wearable Sensors for Monitoring Physical Activity.
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Wearable Devices for Remote Monitoring of Chronic Diseases: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Pooled it
- Sensor for sports applications: monitoring and assessment of intrinsic capacity enhancement in older adults during brisk walking.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Depressive symptom screening in elderly by passive sensing data of smartphones or smartwatches: A systematic review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Encouraging arm use in stroke survivors: the impact of smart reminders during a home-based intervention.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2024Trial
- A systematic review of prolonged posture monitoring with accelerometer-based wearable sensors.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- Wearable Assessment of Dynamic Trunk Sway Reveals Directional Balance Adaptations During Sling-Assisted Walking After Stroke.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Motion-Driven Automatic IMU Orientation Calibration viaSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Physical Activity and Macular Choroidal Circulation in Older Adults With Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: A Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Study.Translational vision science & technology · 2026Article
- Integrating Artificial Intelligence with Wearable Sensors for Advanced Health Monitoring and Diagnosis.Biosensors · 2026Review
- Depth Sensor-Based Instrumentation of the Fukuda Stepping Test: Reliability and Clinical Associations in Older Adults.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Validation of a Multimodal Wearable Device Integrating EMG and IMU Sensors for Monitoring Upper Limb Function During Tooth Brushing Activities of Daily Living.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Osteoporosis After Menopause and After Drug Therapy: The Molecular Mechanism of Bone Loss and Its Treatment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Advancing quantitative outcome measurement in therapeutic dance.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Feasibility of accelerometer-based prediction of postural balance in schoolchildren using machine learning models.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- AI-based patient monitoring for fall prevention in stroke patients: a pilot study at a Malaysian acute stroke unit.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- RGB-D Cameras and Brain-Computer Interfaces for Human Activity Recognition: An Overview.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Patient Driven EKG Device Performance in Adults with Fontan Palliation.Pediatric cardiology · 2025Article
- Wireless Soft Athlete Bioelectronics for Monitoring Carbon Dioxide Ventilation and Physiological Performance.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Entropy Extraction from Wearable Sensors for Secure Cryptographic Key Generation in Blockchain and IoT Systems.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
This article reviews the use of wearable sensors for the monitoring of physical activity (PA) for different purposes, including assessment of gait and balance, prevention and/or detection of falls, recognition of various PAs, conduction and assessment of rehabilitation exercises and monitoring of neurological disease progression. The article provides in-depth information on the retrieved articles and discusses study shortcomings related to demographic factors, i.e., age, gender, healthy participants vs patients, and study conditions. It is well known that motion patterns change with age and the onset of illnesses, and that the risk of falling increases with age. Yet, studies including older persons are rare. Gender distribution was not even provided in several studies, and others included only, or a majority of, men. Another shortcoming is that none of the studies were conducted in real-life conditions. Hence, there is still important work to be done in order to increase the usefulness of wearable sensors in these areas. The article highlights flaws in how studies based on previously collected datasets report on study samples and the data collected, which makes the validity and generalizability of those studies low. Exceptions exist, such as the promising recently reported open dataset FallAllD, wherein a longitudinal study with older adults is ongoing.
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