TY - GEN
T1 - A reliability study of three functional mobility assessment tools in fall risk evaluation
AU - Zhang, Xiaoyue
AU - Lockhart, Thurmon E.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Falls accidents are one of the leading causes of older adults' injury death and nonfatal injuries. Numerous functional mobility assessment tools have been developed to evaluate the risk of fall since 1980s but none of them is fully satisfactory or generally accepted. The current study compared a promising method, the Postural-Locomotor-Manual test (PLM), with two commonly used tools, the Berg's balance test (BBT) and the timed Get-up & Go test (GU&G) in terms of their differences between healthy and fall prone groups. The PLM method measures both inherited and required motor skills as well as their coordination, by using a set of inertial measurement units (IMUs) instead of the traditional optoelectronic instruments. Results have shown that PLM parameters assessed by IMUs agreed well with those assessed by the optoelectronic instruments, and more importantly, had significant difference between groups with different fall risk.
AB - Falls accidents are one of the leading causes of older adults' injury death and nonfatal injuries. Numerous functional mobility assessment tools have been developed to evaluate the risk of fall since 1980s but none of them is fully satisfactory or generally accepted. The current study compared a promising method, the Postural-Locomotor-Manual test (PLM), with two commonly used tools, the Berg's balance test (BBT) and the timed Get-up & Go test (GU&G) in terms of their differences between healthy and fall prone groups. The PLM method measures both inherited and required motor skills as well as their coordination, by using a set of inertial measurement units (IMUs) instead of the traditional optoelectronic instruments. Results have shown that PLM parameters assessed by IMUs agreed well with those assessed by the optoelectronic instruments, and more importantly, had significant difference between groups with different fall risk.
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U2 - 10.1518/107118109x12524444081593
DO - 10.1518/107118109x12524444081593
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951581159
SN - 9781615676231
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 1719
EP - 1723
BT - 53rd Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2009, HFES 2009
PB - Human Factors an Ergonomics Society Inc.
T2 - 53rd Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2009, HFES 2009
Y2 - 19 October 2009 through 23 October 2009
ER -