By Yuge Zhang. Epidemiological research shows that approximately 30% of community-living people aged 65 years and over fall at least once a year. Among them, women appear more likely to fall, with studies reporting that...
Read MoreBy Inbar Hillel. Among older adults, gait impairments threaten functional independence. Gait decline is associated with, and predictive of, numerous adverse health outcomes. These include falls, mobility impairment, cognitive...
Read MoreBy Dr Adamczyk. How can real-world data be used to gain detailed knowledge of how interventions such as prosthetic feet or rehabilitation programs affect real-world movement? The wide variability of a person’s activities is a...
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Fatigue is a common complaint for older people; more than 50 per cent of people aged 70+ report...
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Walking is one of the most fundamental human activities in daily life. Objective and accurate...
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Balance, strength and physical activity are important factors for healthy ageing and preventing...
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Assessment of free-living gait is becoming increasingly popular in mobility and fall-risk research...
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The Prevention of Falls Network for Dissemination (ProFouND www.profound.eu.com) is a thematic...
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Recent advances in body-worn sensor technology make it possible to objectively measure real-world...
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Wearable sensors have become an important research tool because they can be used to monitor...
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Difficulty turning, or changing direction of walking, is a major contributor to mobility...
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Gait can tell us about our health, risk of falls and brain function. Gait problems are focal in...
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