Do wearable trackers measure up to comprehensive professional fitness plans?

Many wearables lack one or more of the tools that healthcare professionals call upon to help individuals increase their physical activity levels or stick to a fitness regimen, according to a researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the US, who were impressed by the trackers' overall sophistication anyway. 

"Despite their rising popularity, little is known about how these monitors differ from one another, what options they provide in their applications and how these options may impact their effectiveness," says senior author Elizabeth Lyons, an assistant professor at UTMB's Institute for Translational Sciences.