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Objective measures of rollator user stability and device loading during different walking scenarios

Walking aids are widely used by older adults, however, alarmingly, their use has been linked to increased falls-risk, yet clinicians have no objective way of assessing user stability. This work aims to demonstrate the application of a novel methodology to investigate how the type of walking task, th...

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Autores principales: Costamagna, Eleonora, Thies, Sibylle B., Kenney, Laurence P. J., Howard, David, Lindemann, Ulrich, Klenk, Jochen, Baker, Rose
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30699170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210960