ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2019
Limb Collapse or Instability? Assessment on Cause of Falls.
Article in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Functional electrical stimulation to enhance reactive balance among people with hemiparetic stroke.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- The influence of smoothness and speed of stand-to-sit movement on joint kinematics, kinetics, and muscle activation patterns.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Lower limb vertical stiffness and frontal plane angular impulse during perturbation-induced single limb stance and their associations with gait in individuals post-stroke.Journal of biomechanics · 2024Article
- Age-related differences in lower limb muscle activation patterns and balance control strategies while walking over a compliant surface.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Age-Related Differences in Kinematics, Kinetics, and Muscle Synergy Patterns Following a Sudden Gait Perturbation: Changes in Movement Strategies and Implications for Fall Prevention Rehabilitation.Applied sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Provoking Artificial Slips and Trips towards Perturbation-Based Balance Training: A Narrative Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Age-related differences in stepping stability following a sudden gait perturbation are associated with lower limb eccentric control of the perturbed limb.Experimental gerontology · 2022Article
- Application of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on the support limb during reactive balance control in persons with stroke: a pilot study.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Posterior fall-recovery training applied to individuals with chronic stroke: A single-group intervention study.Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) · 2021Article
- Is There an Optimal Recovery Step Landing Zone Against Slip-Induced Backward Falls During Walking?Annals of biomedical engineering · 2020Article
- The Role of Recovery Lower Limb Segments in Post-Slip Determination of Falls Due to Instability or Limb Collapse.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2020Article
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Abstract
What causes an older adult to fall? Could the same factor lead to a recurring fall? The purposes of this study sought to address these questions by developing a causal-based assessment method for detection of the initial biomechanical cause of fall, and investigating the causation of 97 falls (out of 195 community dwelling older adults who participated in this study) based on this method. The unrecoverable limb collapse, or unrecoverable instability, along with its point of no return was defined, and the assessment method was established. Both the novel and the second slips of 97 participants who experienced laboratory induced slip related falls were assessed. The results showed that these older adults had more limb collapse (59.8%) initiated falls than instability (40.2%; and 32.0% of which from anteroposterior instability while only 8.2% from mediolateral instability) initiated falls. Interestingly, the majority (86.4%) of those 22 repeated fallers fell twice because of the same cause. These findings shed light on the vulnerability and the causation of recurring falls, which is one of the most challenging healthcare issues that an active but aging population is facing.
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