GAIT SPEED AND FALLS
The pace and prognosis of peripheral sensory loss in advanced age: association with gait speed and falls
... of falls using state-of-the-art falls calendars and follow-up phone ...in gait speed and increase in fall rate, even in the absence of more rigorous assess- ments of vibratory, proprioceptive, ...
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The influence of dementia on falls, gait and rehabilitation
... techniques, i.e. different walking speeds [57] and additional tasks [139]. The dual-task paradigm has become the standard method to assess the influence of cognition on gait [69] (Chapter 1). Initially reported as ...
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Intraindividual variability, gait and falls in old age
... 170 170 2013). Although sophisticated statistical procedures were used to analyse the data in the current study to deal with attrition and missing data, the relatively low sample size may have reduced the power of the ...
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Gait asymmetry assessment for older adults by measuring circular gait speed
... bodied gait: a review. Gait Posture 2000; 12: ...increases gait asymmetry and variability in older ...EJ. Falls in young, middle-aged and older community dwelling adults: Perceived cause, ...
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Dynamic balance and instrumented gait variables are independent predictors of falls following stroke
... Walking speed, stepping pattern or use of aids may have influenced movement at the ...with gait speed, cadence or step ...of falls despite assistance being included as a covariate or when ...
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History of falls, gait, balance, and fall risks in older cancer survivors living in the community
... to falls because cancer-related sequelae affect virtually all body ...of falls, gait speed, and balance tests to assess fall risks remains to be investigated in this ...previous falls, ...
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Effect of gait speed on gait rhythmicity in Parkinson's disease: variability of stride time and swing time respond differently
... the gait disturbance in Parkinson's disease (PD) ...cause, falls may lead to fear of falling, self-imposed restrictions in activities of daily liv- ing, and nursing home admission ...of gait and ...
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Concurrent Validity of Functional Gait Assessment, Timed Up and Go, and Gait Speed Tests in the Persian Community-Dwelling Elderly
... changing gait tasks and requirements (3, 4). The FGA is a 10-item gait test that comprises 7 of the 8 items of the original DGI and 3 new items, including “gait with narrow base of support,” ...
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Lighting and perceptual cues: Effects on gait measures of older adults at high and low risk for falls
... to gait velocity, increased gait variability, which quantifies the stride fluctuations during walking, has also been associated with increased risk for falls in less active older adults ...in ...
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Dual-channel functional electrical stimulation improvements in speed-based gait classifications
... stimulation, gait velocity, ambulation Introduction Restoration of independent and functional ambulation is a major rehabilitation goal for patients with ...independent gait, many do not reach a walking ...
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Effects of Foot and Ankle Devices on Balance, Gait and Falls in Adults with Sensory Perception Loss: A Systematic Review
... and gait have been used to explore the effects of wearing footwear interventions on postural control ...mean speed and amplitude of the COP, have been used in previous trials to predict ...of falls ...
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Ageing, gait and falls risk
... between gait and age re-estimated after excluding the slow 61 year old and the s_low 62 year old Removing the most influential observation of all - that of the speedy 86 year old - would have increased the ...
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From a gait and falls clinic visit towards self-management of falls in frail elderly
... In our study, we assume that more accidental fallers were included in group 2 explaining the result of a lower rate of recurrent fallers in this group. A GP referral results in a population with less (mean 4) modifiable ...
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Fuzzy-Genetic Model for the Identification of Falls Risk Gait
... of gait patterns in falls risk ...for gait pattern ...pathological gait features for improved gait diagnostic capability. Gait features were calculated using minimum foot ...
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Wearables for independent living in older adults: Gait and falls
... 6 can lead to more robust data collection during free-living as well as reduce burden on the wearer to don or carry the wearable where most comfortable. Lack of adherence to using wearables is a complex topic of human ...
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Bone strain: a determinant of gait and speed?
... In conclusion, the data presented here support, but do not confirm, our hypothesis that the range of speed within a trot and top speed of an animal are linked to the peak strains (or str[r] ...
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Nicotine Bitartrate Reduces Falls and Freezing of Gait in Parkinson Disease: A Reanalysis
... reduced falls (p = ...patients. Falls and FOG are among the most debilitating consequences of PD ( 2 – 5 ...both falls and FOG. Chung et al. ( 16 ) demonstrated a reduction in falls using ...
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Gait Parameter and Speed Estimation from the Frontal View Gait Video Data Based on the Gait Motion and Spatial Modeling
... Abnormal Gait 0 100 V. C ONCLUSIONS In this article, focusing on the human gait cycles, we consider the human gait modeling based on simple gait struc- ...human gait cycles using the ...
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Gait speed as a measure of functional status in COPD patients
... capacity. Gait speed is mainly determined by exercise capacity but reflects global well-being as it captures many of the multisystemic effects of disease severity in COPD rather than pulmonary impairment ...
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Virtual-dynamics-based reference gait speed generator for limit-cycle-based bipedal gait
... reference gait speed generator for limit-cycle-based bipedal gait of humanoid robots in order to achieve secure and efficient acceleration and deceleration without falling down at respective ...
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