Medicine and science in sports and exercise
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Med Sci Sports Exerc · Mar 2015
Fitness testing in the fibromyalgia diagnosis: the al-Ándalus project.
This study aimed to determine the ability of a set of physical fitness tests to discriminate presence or absence of fibromyalgia in women. ⋯ The arm curl, 30-s chair stand, and handgrip strength tests powerfully discriminated women with fibromyalgia from healthy women. Identification of women who fail to meet the suggested standards can help to easily, quickly, and cheaply rule out the presence of the disease, especially in primary care settings.
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Med Sci Sports Exerc · Mar 2015
Validity of PALMS GPS scoring of active and passive travel compared with SenseCam.
The objective of this study is to assess validity of the personal activity location measurement system (PALMS) for deriving time spent walking/running, bicycling, and in vehicle, using SenseCam (Microsoft, Redmond, WA) as the comparison. ⋯ PALMS has validity for processing GPS data to objectively measure time spent walking/running, bicycling, and in vehicle in population studies. Assessing travel patterns is one of many valuable applications of GPS in physical activity research that can improve our understanding of the determinants and health outcomes of active transportation as well as its effect on physical activity.