Sílvia Cabral, Renan Alves Resende, Adam Clansey, Kevin J. Deluzio et al.
High levels of gait asymmetry are associated with many pathologies. Our long-term goal is to improve gait symmetry through real-time biofeedback of a symmetry index. Symmetry is often reported as a single metric or a collective signature of multiple discrete measures. While this is useful for assess...
Alison C. Novak, Brenda Brouwer
This study describes and contrasts the kinematics and kinetics of stair ambulation in people with chronic stroke and healthy control subjects. Three-dimensional motion data were collected from 10 persons with stroke (7 males) and 10 sex and age-matched older adults as they ascended and descended an ...
Julie Bruce, Anower Hossain, Ranjit Lall, Emma Withers et al.
BACKGROUND: Falls and fractures are a major problem. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of alternative falls prevention interventions. DESIGN: Three-arm, pragmatic, cluster randomised controlled trial with parallel economic analysis. The unit of randomisatio...
Md. Ahasan Atick Faisal, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Zaid Bin Mahbub, Shona Pedersen et al.
Zabir Mohammad, Arif Reza Anwary, M. F. Mridha, Md Sakib Hossain Shovon et al.
Fatal injuries and hospitalizations caused by accidental falls are significant problems among the elderly. Detecting falls in real-time is challenging, as many falls occur in a short period. Developing an automated monitoring system that can predict falls before they happen, provide safeguards durin...
Adriana Teresa Silva, Miqueline Pivoto Faria Dias, Ruanito Calixto, Antonio Luis Carone et al.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the acute effects of whole-body vibration on the motor function of patients with stroke. DESIGN: The present investigation was a randomized clinical trial studying 43 individuals with hemiparesis after stroke, with 33 subjects allocated to the inte...
Nazmun Nahar, Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, Karl Andersson
Zishan Zahidul Islam, Syed Mahir Tazwar, Md. Zahidul Islam, Seiichi Serikawa et al.
With the increasing elderly population around us, complications in ensuring their proper welfare are also on a rise. Among these, unsupervised falling or collapsing is one of the main problems we face regarding elderly people. Though the prevention of fall should unarguably be the main focus but pra...
Kristine Røren Nordén, Anne Grete Semb, Hanne Dagfinrud, Jonny Hisdal et al.
Objectives To assess the effect of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) delivered in physiotherapy primary care on the primary outcome of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA). Additionally, to explore the effects of HIIT on secondary outcomes, including car...
Firoz Ahmed Mamin, Muhammad Shahidul Islam, Farjana Sharmin Rumana, Farhana Faruqui
OBJECTIVE: Stroke is the leading cause of death and disability in Bangladesh. Rehabilitation services have not yet been integrated into the Bangladesh health system. Only a few non-governmental organisations provide rehabilitation for stroke patients. The demographic profile of these patients has no...
Charlene H. Chu, Amanda My Linh Quan, Allison Souter, Archanaa Krisnagopal et al.
BACKGROUND: Aging is often associated with increasing functional decline as measured by deterioration in mobility and activities of daily living. Older adults (OAs) living in residential long-term care (LTC) homes in particular may not engage in regular physical exercise, significantly increasing th...
Christine S. Autenrieth, Stefan Karrasch, Margit Heier, Lukas Gorzelniak et al.
BACKGROUND: Gait changes at older ages are a strong predictor of a decline in lower extremity functions. However, large population-based studies assessing gait parameters in various gait tasks are lacking. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the relationship of age, the use of mobility aids and being fitted ...
Maria Bjerk, Signe Flottorp, Are Hugo Pripp, Henning Øien et al.
BACKGROUND: Despite substantial research evidence indicating the effectiveness of a range of interventions to prevent falls, uptake into routine clinical practice has been limited by several implementation challenges. The complexity of fall prevention in municipality health care underlines the impor...
Emma Lea, Sharon Andrews, Keith Hill, Terry Haines et al.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To examine residential aged care facility staff views on using falls risk assessment tools and the implications for developing falls prevention practices in the context of an action research project. BACKGROUND: Falls risk assessments play an important role in care planning by i...
Marta Karas, Julia Olsen, Marcin Strączkiewicz, Stephen A. Johnson et al.
BACKGROUND: Passively collected smartphone sensor data provide an opportunity to study physical activity and mobility unobtrusively over long periods of time and may enable disease monitoring in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (PALS). METHODS: We enrolled 63 PALS who used Beiwe mobile appl...