Wearable Sensors in Sports for Persons with Disability: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: The interest and competitiveness in sports for persons with disabilities has increased significantly in the recent years, creating a demand for technological tools supporting practice. Wearable sensors offer non-invasive, portable and overall convenient ways to monitor sports practice. This systematic review aims at providing current evidence on the application of wearable sensors in sports for persons with disability. A search for articles published in English before May 2020 was performed on Scopus, Web-Of-Science, PubMed and EBSCO databases, searching titles, abstracts and keywords with a search string involving terms regarding wearable sensors, sports and disability. After full paper screening, 39 studies were included. Inertial and EMG sensors were the most commonly adopted wearable t

SUBMITTER: Rum L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7961424 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature