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Attention and the control of posture and gait: a review of an emerging area of research
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New clinical assessment methods incorporating dual-task paradigms are helpful in revealing the effect of disease on the ability to allocate attention to postural tasks and appear to be sensitive measures in both predicting fall risk and in documenting recovery of stability.About:
This article is published in Gait & Posture.The article was published on 2002-08-01. It has received 2331 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control & Balance (ability).read more
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Clinical Risk Factors for Head Impact During Falls in Older Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study in Long-Term Care.
Yijian Yang,Dawn C. Mackey,Teresa Liu-Ambrose,Pet-Ming Leung,Fabio Feldman,Stephen N. Robinovitch +5 more
TL;DR: Head impact is common during falls in LTC, with less cognitively impaired, female residents who suffered from visual impairment, being most likely to impact their head.
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Gait pattern in patients with different multiple sclerosis phenotypes
Irena Dujmovic,Sasa Radovanovic,Vanja Martinovic,Jelena Dackovic,Gorica Maric,Sarlota Mesaros,Tatjana Pekmezovic,Vladimir S. Kostic,Jelena Drulovic +8 more
TL;DR: A disturbed gait pattern in MS patients with different MS phenotypes depends on disability and reflects a cognitive-motor interference.
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Understanding the aetiology of fear of falling from the perspective of a fear-avoidance model – A narrative review
TL;DR: The fear avoidance model offers a novel framework for explaining the mechanism of developing FoF and the discrepancy between experienced and perceived fall risk, and specifically capitalizes on recent insights into fundamental learning mechanisms underlying emotion and fear.
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Age-related deficits of dual-task walking: the role of foot vision.
Otmar Bock,Rainer Beurskens +1 more
TL;DR: This study confirms previous findings about age-related deficits of walking with a concurrent visual task, and documents for the first time that these deficits influence the entire spatio-temporal gait structure, but provides no support for the notion that they reflect an increased dependence on foot vision.
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Complexity Matching: Restoring the Complexity of Locomotion in Older People Through Arm-in-Arm Walking
TL;DR: This work presents the first demonstration of a restoration of complexity in deficient systems, if an aged participant walked in close synchrony with a young companion, and this effect was persistent 2 weeks after the end of the training session.
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The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons
TL;DR: This study evaluated a modified, timed version of the “Get‐Up and Go” Test (Mathias et al, 1986) in 60 patients referred to a Geriatric Day Hospital and suggested that the timed “Up & Go’ test is a reliable and valid test for quantifying functional mobility that may also be useful in following clinical change over time.
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Predicting the probability for falls in community-dwelling older adults using the Timed Up & Go Test.
TL;DR: The TUG is a sensitive and specific measure for identifying community-dwelling adults who are at risk for falls and the ability to predict falls is not enhanced by adding a secondary task when performing the TUG.
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Motor Control: Theory and Practical Applications
TL;DR: This text bridges the gap between research/theory and practice by focusing on the scientific and experimental basis of new motor control theories by specifically illustrating how recent findings and theories can be applied to clinical practice.
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"Stops walking when talking" as a predictor of falls in elderly people.
TL;DR: This investigation investigated the usefulness of the sign “stops walking when talking” in predicting falls and found that some frail elderly patients stop walking when they start a conversation with a walking companion, presumably because walking demands attention and they stop when they are expected to do two things at once.
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The Effects of Two Types of Cognitive Tasks on Postural Stability in Older Adults With and Without a History of Falls
TL;DR: Results suggest that when postural stability is impaired, even relatively simple cognitive tasks can further impact balance and suggest that the allocation of attention during the performance of concurrent tasks is complex.