Gait perturbations to discriminate between older adults with and without history of falls
Roeles, Sanne and Rowe, Philip and Bruijn, Sjoerd and Childs, Craig and Steenbrink, Frans and Pijnappels, Mirjam (2017) Gait perturbations to discriminate between older adults with and without history of falls. In: International Society for Posture and Gait Research World Congress, 2017-06-25 - 2017-09-29.
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Abstract
While falls among older adults are considered a major health problem, the sensitivity of conventional fall risk assessments to identify individuals is poor [1]. Among the main risk factors for falls are balance and gait impairments [2]. The ability to resist or recover from gait perturbations requires fast and accurate responses and might discriminate between fallers and non-fallers. We therefore investigated the ability to discriminate between older adults with and without history of falls using perturbation based gait assessment.
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Roeles, Sanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0822-8395, Rowe, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-8466, Bruijn, Sjoerd, Childs, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1318-0007, Steenbrink, Frans and Pijnappels, Mirjam;-
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Item type: Conference or Workshop Item(Paper) ID code: 61881 Dates: DateEvent1 June 2017Published28 March 2017AcceptedSubjects: Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > Bioengineering Department: Faculty of Engineering > Biomedical Engineering
Strategic Research Themes > Health and WellbeingDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 02 Oct 2017 09:20 Last modified: 12 Dec 2024 16:22 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/61881