Trial reportScientific reports2018
Natural turn measures predict recurrent falls in community-dwelling older adults: a longitudinal cohort study.
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37 citing papers in PubMed.
- TURN-IT: a novel turning intervention program to improve quality of turning in daily life in people with Parkinson's disease.BMC neurology · 2022Trial
- Vestibular perception, balance impairment, and fall risk in community-dwelling older adults.Age and ageing · 2026Article
- Laboratory-based turning performance during walking in people with mild cognitive impairment and dementia.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2026Article
- Turning as a single and dual task-associations with Alzheimer's and vascular pathologies in cognitively healthy older people.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026Article
- Near-gaze fixation promotes use of spin turns during walking: age-independent visuomotor effects with maladaptive behavioral consequences in older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- Gait variability as a dual-pathway marker of cognitive-motor dysfunction in older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Effects of Levodopa on Gait in People With Parkinson's Disease With and Without a History of Falls.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025Article
- Tug-vimu: a GoPro-based mobility assessment bridging the gap between technology and clinical practice.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Older adult frontal plane balance during 90 degree turns while walking.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Mobility Requirements and Joint Loading during Straight Walking and 90° Turns in Healthy Older People and Those with Hip Osteoarthritis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Walking on a Balance Beam as a New Measure of Dynamic Balance to Predict Falls in Older Adults and Patients with Neurological Conditions.Sports medicine - open · 2024Article
- Turning speed as a more responsive metric of age-related decline in mobility: A comparative study with gait speed.Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) · 2024Article
- The relevance of figure-of-eight walk test to hip muscle strength in healthy young males.Journal of physical therapy science · 2023Article
- A Scoping Review of the Validity and Reliability of Smartphone Accelerometers When Collecting Kinematic Gait Data.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Machine learning based estimation of dynamic balance and gait adaptability in persons with neurological diseases using inertial sensors.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Effect of Levodopa and Environmental Setting on Gait and Turning Digital Markers Related to Falls in People with Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2023Article
- Gait and turning characteristics from daily life increase ability to predict future falls in people with Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
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- Digitizing a Therapeutic: Development of an Augmented Reality Dual-Task Training Platform for Parkinson's Disease.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although turning has been reported as one of the leading activities performed during a fall, and falls during turning result in 8-times more hip fractures than falls during linear gait, the quantity and quality of turns resulting in falls remain unknown since turns are rarely assessed during activities of daily living. 160 community-dwelling older adults were monitored for one week using smartphone technology. Turn measures and activity rates were quantified. Fall incidence within 12 months from continuous monitoring defined fall status, with 7/153 prospective fallers/non-fallers. Based on the analysis of 718,582 turns, prospective fallers turned less frequently, took longer to turn, and were less consistent in turn angle (p = 0.007, 0.025, and 0.038, respectively). Prospective fallers also walked slower and spent less time walking and turning and more time engaged in sedentary behavior (p = 0.043, 0.012, and 0.015, respectively). Individuals experiencing decline in the control of gait and/or turning may attempt to reduce their risk of falling by limiting their exposure and implementing cautionary movement strategies while turning. Since there was no difference in the overall active rate between prospective fallers and non-fallers, impaired gait and turning ability, specifically, may attribute to elevated fall risk within this cohort.
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