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Table 3 Overview of activities and measures regarding wheeling as well as the corresponding study populations and study designs

From: Systematic review on the application of wearable inertial sensors to quantify everyday life motor activity in people with mobility impairments

Activity

Measure

Diagnosis/impairment group

Study design

Moving around using a wheelchair

 Self-propelled wheeling

Duration

Able-bodied wheelchair users [17], spinal cord injury [32, 62, 97,98,99,100,101]

Classification accuracy [17, 32, 62, 97,98,99,100,101]

Distance

Spinal cord injury [29, 32]

Clinical validity [29], technical validity [32]

Speed

Able-bodied wheelchair users [17], spinal cord injury [29]

Classification accuracy [17], clinical validity [29]

# of strokes/stroke frequency

Spinal cord injury [102]

Interventional [102], technical validity [102]

 Maneuvering

Duration

Able-bodied wheelchair users [17], spinal cord injury [32]

Classification accuracy [17, 32]

 Playing basketball

Duration

Spinal cord injury [101]

Classification accuracy [101]