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Assessing elderly’s functional balance and mobility via analyzing data from waist-mounted tri-axial wearable accelerometers in timed up and go tests

BACKGROUND: Poor balance has been cited as one of the key causal factors of falls. Timely detection of balance impairment can help identify the elderly prone to falls and also trigger early interventions to prevent them. The goal of this study was to develop a surrogate approach for assessing elderl...

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Autores principales: Yu, Lisha, Zhao, Yang, Wang, Hailiang, Sun, Tien-Lung, Murphy, Terrence E., Tsui, Kwok-Leung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7995592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33766011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-021-01463-4