Concept
Falling (accident)
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Instrumented shoes for daily activity monitoring in healthy and at risk populations
Christopher Moufawad El Achkar
Daily activity reflects the health status of an individual. Ageing and disease drastically affect all dimensions of mobility, from the number of active bouts to their duration and intensity. Performing less activity leads to muscle deterioration and furthe ...
EPFL2016Gait disturbances as specific predictive markers of the first fall onset in elderly people: a two-year prospective observational study
Falls are common in the elderly, and potentially result in injury and disability. Thus, preventing falls as soon as possible in older adults is a public health priority, yet there is no specific marker that is predictive of the first fall onset. We hypothe ...
Frontiers Research Foundation2014Development of a standard fall data format for signals from body-worn sensors The FARSEEING consensus
Objective measurement of real-world fall events by using body-worn sensor devices can improve the understanding of falls in older people and enable new technology to prevent, predict, and automatically recognize falls. However, these events are rare and he ...
Springer Heidelberg2013Design and evaluation of a new mechatronic platform for assessment and prevention of fall risks
Background: Studying the responses in human behaviour to external perturbations during daily motor tasks is of key importance for understanding mechanisms of balance control and for investigating the functional response of targeted subjects. Experimental p ...
BioMed Central2012Dry rock avalanche propagation
Rock avalanches are catastrophic phenomena which are not yet exhaustively understood. They consist of rock mass movements of more than one million cubic metres, involving a great amount of energy and travelling farther than expected with a normal sliding f ...
EPFL2008