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Risk factors for falls among older adults: a review of the literature.
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The major risk factors identified are impaired balance and gait, polypharmacy, and history of previous falls, which include advancing age, female gender, visual impairments, cognitive decline especially attention and executive dysfunction, and environmental factors.About:
This article is published in Maturitas.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 1209 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Falls in older adults & Indirect costs.read more
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Focused educational intervention improves but may not sustain knowledge regarding falls management.
Punith Kempegowda,Joht Singh Chandan,Richard Hutton,Lauren April Brown,Wendy Madden,June Webb,Alison Doyle,Jonathan Treml +7 more
TL;DR: Although educational interventions improve knowledge, the intervention failed to sustain over period of time or translate in clinical practice and further work is needed to identify alternative methods to improve sustainability of the knowledge of falls and bring in the change in clinicalpractice.
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MhNet: Multi-scale spatio-temporal hierarchical network for real-time wearable fall risk assessment of the elderly
TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper explored a hierarchical deep learning network named MhNet for real-time fall risk assessment, which utilized the advantages of two-layer network to reach hierarchical tasks to reduce probability of misidentification of high fall risk subjects, by establishing a borderline category using the rehabilitation labels, and extracting multi-scale spatio-temporal features.
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Fusion of Clinical, Self-Reported, and Multisensor Data for Predicting Falls
TL;DR: A multifactorial screening protocol was applied to 281 community-dwelling adults aged over 65, and their 12-month prospective falls were annotated, yielding similar results for the majority of the metrics.
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Correlation of Transtibial Prosthetic Alignment Quality and Step-by-Step Variance of Gait
TL;DR: Subjective patient feedback is the recommendable criterion for alignment assessment in active and experienced users of prostheses and variance in axial torsion moment and step duration may be correlated to alignment quality.
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The after-effect of noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation on postural control in young people: A randomized controlled trial
Yasuto Inukai,Naofumi Otsuru,Kei Saito,Shota Miyaguchi,Sho Kojima,Hirotake Yokota,Kazuaki Nagasaka,Hideaki Onishi +7 more
TL;DR: There was a correlation between the stimulation effect and the after-effect in the nGVS group, indicating that nG VS is effective for people with high baseline COP sway, and no significant difference in COP sway was detected in the control group.
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Risk factors for falls among elderly persons living in the community.
TL;DR: It is concluded that falls among older persons living in the community are common and that a simple clinical assessment can identify the elderly persons who are at the greatest risk of falling.
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Performance-oriented assessment of mobility problems in elderly patients
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