ArticleJournal of biomechanics2014
Can stability really predict an impending slip-related fall among older adults?
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- Step width variability as a discriminator of age-related gait changes.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2020Pooled it
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- Recreational older ballet dancers fall less with more effective reactive balance control than non-dancers after a slip during gait.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Classification and Definitions of Compensatory Protective Step Strategies in Older Adults: A Scoping Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Arm weight effects on dynamic walking stability in individuals with hemiparetic stroke.PloS one · 2024Article
- Nonlinear Dynamic Measures of Walking in Healthy Older Adults: A Systematic Scoping Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Dynamic stability based identification of optimal Tai Chi forms for preventing falls among older adults with knee osteoarthritis.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2021Article
- Outdoor walking exhibits peak ankle and knee flexion differences compared to fixed and adaptive-speed treadmills in older adults.Biomedical engineering online · 2021Article
- Risk-of-falling related outcomes improved in community-dwelling older adults after a 6-week sideways walking intervention: a feasibility and pilot study.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- Upper and Lower Limb Movement Kinematics in AgingBrain sciences · 2020Article
- Gait stability in response to platform, belt, and sensory perturbations in young and older adults.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2018Article
- Reshaping Movement Distributions With Limit-Push Robotic Training.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2018Article
- Neuromuscular determinants of slip-induced falls and recoveries in older adults.Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
- Type and Location of Wearable Sensors for Monitoring Falls during Static and Dynamic Tasks in Healthy Elderly: A Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Review
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- Quantifying Dynamic Balance in Young, Elderly and Parkinson's Individuals: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2018Article
- Obesity May Not Induce Dynamic Stability Disadvantage during Overground Walking among Young Adults.PloS one · 2017Article
- Misalignment of the Desired and Measured Center of Pressure Describes Falls Caused by Slip during Turning.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
The primary purpose of this study was to systematically evaluate and compare the predictive power of falls for a battery of stability indices, obtained during normal walking among community-dwelling older adults. One hundred and eighty seven community-dwelling older adults participated in the study. After walking regularly for 20 strides on a walkway, participants were subjected to an unannounced slip during gait under the protection of a safety harness. Full body kinematics and kinetics were monitored during walking using a motion capture system synchronized with force plates. Stability variables, including feasible-stability-region measurement, margin of stability, the maximum Floquet multiplier, the Lyapunov exponents (short- and long-term), and the variability of gait parameters (including the step length, step width, and step time), were calculated for each subject. Sensitivity of predicting slip outcome (fall vs. recovery) was examined for each stability variable using logistic regression. Results showed that the feasible-stability-region measurement predicted fall incidence among these subjects with the highest sensitivity (68.4%). Except for the step width (with an sensitivity of 60.2%), no other stability variables could differentiate fallers from those who did not fall for the sample included in this study. The findings from the present study could provide guidance to identify individuals at increased risk of falling using the feasible-stability-region measurement or variability of the step width.
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