Citation

Sipp AR, Rowley BA. Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. 2008; 1: 1262-1265.

Affiliation

Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435 USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers))

DOI

unavailable

PMID

19162896

Abstract

It is unknown whether there are any measurable warning signs just before a patient falls. This study of postural position just prior to a fall involved a subject standing on a balance beam while wearing a gyroscope-based wireless data acquisition system. Results show a variation in postural position when the subject appeared stable. This occurred well before the subject experienced a fall and could not be classified as pre-fall or fall. The results show that there are two distinguishable levels of postural stability - baseline and near-fall.

Language: en