Trial reportPloS one2018
Local dynamic stability during gait for predicting falls in elderly people: A one-year prospective study.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Accuracy of wearable devices in predicting falls in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Practical and validated tool to assess falls risk in the primary care setting: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2021Pooled it
- Performance and Characteristics of Wearable Sensor Systems Discriminating and Classifying Older Adults According to Fall Risk: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Pooled it
- Beyond gait speed: a multidimensional motor signature of motoric cognitive risk syndrome identified through domain-specific anomaly detection.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Measuring Walking Stability with a Mobile Phone in Older Adults: A Validation Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Functional differences between lower limbs during gait in relation to fall risk.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
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- Evaluation of instability in patients with chronic vestibular syndrome using dynamic stability indicators.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2025Article
- Effects of the kinematic variable, time delay and data length on test-retest reliability of the maximal Lyapunov exponent of human walking.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Effects of metronome walking on long-term attractor divergence and correlation structure of gait: a validation study in older people.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Correlation enhanced distribution adaptation for prediction of fall risk.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Different Dual-Task Paradigm Reduce Postural Control Ability and Dynamic Stability of Healthy Young Adults during Stair Descent.Applied bionics and biomechanics · 2024Article
- Overview of Radar-Based Gait Parameter Estimation Techniques for Fall Risk Assessment.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2024Article
- Recurrent Neural Network Methods for Extracting Dynamic Balance Variables during Gait from a Single Inertial Measurement Unit.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Predictability of Fall Risk Assessments in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Scoping Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Nonlinear Dynamic Measures of Walking in Healthy Older Adults: A Systematic Scoping Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Predicting Axial Impairment in Parkinson's Disease through a Single Inertial Sensor.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Detecting Fall Risk and Frailty in Elders with Inertial Motion Sensors: A Survey of Significant Gait Parameters.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Sensor-based fall risk assessment in older adults with or without cognitive impairment: a systematic review.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2021Review
- Effects of Rucksack Military Accessory on Gait Dynamic Stability.International journal of prognostics and health management · 2021Article
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Abstract
Computing the local dynamic stability using accelerometer data from inertial sensors has recently been proposed as a gait measure which may be able to identify elderly people at fall risk. However, the assumptions supporting this potential were concluded as most studies implement a retrospective fall history observation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of local dynamic stability for fall risk prediction in a cohort of subjects over the age of 60 years using a prospective fall occurrence observation. A total of 131 elderly subjects voluntarily participated in this study. The baseline measurement included gait stability assessment using inertial sensors and clinical examination by Tinetti Balance Assessment Tool. After the baseline measurement, subjects were observed for a period of one year for fall occurrence. Our results demonstrated poor multiple falls predictive ability of trunk local dynamic stability (AUC = 0.673). The predictive ability improved when the local dynamic stability was combined with clinical measures, a combination of trunk medial-lateral local dynamic stability and Tinetti total score being the best predictor (AUC = 0.755). Together, the present findings suggest that the medial-lateral local dynamic stability during gait combined with a clinical score is a potential fall risk assessment measure in the elderly population.
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