Developmental medicine and child neurology
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Dev Med Child Neurol · Nov 2019
Measuring ambulation with wrist-based and hip-based activity trackers for children with cerebral palsy.
To assess the accuracy of consumer available wrist-based and hip-based activity trackers in quantitatively measuring ambulation in children with cerebral palsy (CP). ⋯ Consumer available activity trackers accurately measure ambulation in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The hip-based tracker is more accurate than the wrist-based tracker for children with CP. The hip-based Fitbit activity tracker accurately measures step counts of children with CP during ambulation.