Rapid Assessment of Age-Related Differences in Standing Balance
As life expectancy continues to rise, in the future there will be an increasing number of older people prone to falling. Accordingly, there is an urgent need for comprehensive testing of older individuals to collect data and to identify possible risk factors for falling. Here we use a low-cost force...
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| author | Tobias Kalisch Jan-Christoph Kattenstroth Sebastian Noth Martin Tegenthoff Hubert R. Dinse |
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| description | As life expectancy continues to rise, in the future there will be an increasing number of older people prone to falling. Accordingly, there is an urgent need for comprehensive testing of older individuals to collect data and to identify possible risk factors for falling. Here we use a low-cost force platform to rapidly assess deficits in balance under various conditions. We tested 21 healthy older adults and 24 young adults during static stance, unidirectional and rotational displacement of their centre of pressure (COP). We found an age-related increase in postural sway during quiet standing and a reduction of maximal COP displacement in unidirectional and rotational displacement tests. Our data show that even low-cost computerized assessment tools allow for the comprehensive testing of balance performance in older subjects. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4398ba22b2694c4eb9be3d3ddb7833d72025-08-20T03:36:02ZengWileyJournal of Aging Research2090-22122011-01-01201110.4061/2011/160490160490Rapid Assessment of Age-Related Differences in Standing BalanceTobias Kalisch0Jan-Christoph Kattenstroth1Sebastian Noth2Martin Tegenthoff3Hubert R. Dinse4Department of Neurology, BG-Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44789 Bochum, GermanyNeural Plasticity Lab, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, GermanyAutonomous Robotics Group, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, GermanyDepartment of Neurology, BG-Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44789 Bochum, GermanyNeural Plasticity Lab, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, GermanyAs life expectancy continues to rise, in the future there will be an increasing number of older people prone to falling. Accordingly, there is an urgent need for comprehensive testing of older individuals to collect data and to identify possible risk factors for falling. Here we use a low-cost force platform to rapidly assess deficits in balance under various conditions. We tested 21 healthy older adults and 24 young adults during static stance, unidirectional and rotational displacement of their centre of pressure (COP). We found an age-related increase in postural sway during quiet standing and a reduction of maximal COP displacement in unidirectional and rotational displacement tests. Our data show that even low-cost computerized assessment tools allow for the comprehensive testing of balance performance in older subjects.http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/160490 |
| spellingShingle | Tobias Kalisch Jan-Christoph Kattenstroth Sebastian Noth Martin Tegenthoff Hubert R. Dinse Rapid Assessment of Age-Related Differences in Standing Balance Journal of Aging Research |
| title | Rapid Assessment of Age-Related Differences in Standing Balance |
| title_full | Rapid Assessment of Age-Related Differences in Standing Balance |
| title_fullStr | Rapid Assessment of Age-Related Differences in Standing Balance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rapid Assessment of Age-Related Differences in Standing Balance |
| title_short | Rapid Assessment of Age-Related Differences in Standing Balance |
| title_sort | rapid assessment of age related differences in standing balance |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/160490 |
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