Publications by authors named "David Bernikier"

Background: Community stroke rehabilitation teams (CSRT) provide an individualized home-based rehabilitation service to patients recovering from stroke.

Objective: To examine whether there is an improvement in the social participation of patients who received a rehabilitation program provided by CSRT. The secondary objectives were to show if there is an improvement in the patients' quality of life and a reduction in the caregiver burden.

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Objective: To evaluate the validity and test-retest reliability of physical activity trackers (accelerometer, multisensor, smartphone, pedometer) for estimating energy expenditure during walking in individuals with stroke.

Data Sources: Webline, MEDLINE, Scopus, ScienceDirect, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, and Wiley Online Library databases from 1980 to November 2020.

Study Selection: The inclusion criteria were studies that examined the validity of portable physical activity trackers for estimating energy expenditure in individuals with stroke during walking activities compared to indirect calorimetry.

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