Local dynamic stability during gait for predicting falls in elderly people: A one-year prospective study

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Result on the web

<a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0197091" target="_blank" >http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0197091</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197091" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0197091</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Local dynamic stability during gait for predicting falls in elderly people: A one-year prospective study

Original language description

Computing the local dynamic stability using accelerometer data from inertial sensors has recently been proposed as a gait measure which may be able to identify elderly people at fall risk. However, the assumptions supporting this potential were concluded as most studies implement a retrospective fall history observation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of local dynamic stability for fall risk prediction in a cohort of subjects over the age of 60 years using a prospective fall occurrence observation. A total of 131 elderly subjects voluntarily participated in this study. The baseline measurement included gait stability assessment using inertial sensors and clinical examination by Tinetti Balance Assessment Tool. After the baseline measurement, subjects were observed for a period of one year for fall occurrence. Our results demonstrated poor multiple falls predictive ability of trunk local dynamic stability (AUC = 0.673). The predictive ability improved when the local dynamic stability was combined with clinical measures, a combination of trunk medial-lateral local dynamic stability and Tinetti total score being the best predictor (AUC = 0.755). Together, the present findings suggest that the medial-lateral local dynamic stability during gait combined with a clinical score is a potential fall risk assessment measure in the elderly population.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10610 - Biophysics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-13980S" target="_blank" >GA15-13980S: Assessment of gait performance variability as indicator of fall risk</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS One

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1-11

UT code for WoS article

000431851700066

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85046863921