TY - GEN
T1 - Balance analysis of one leg stance for older adults with Inertial Measurement Units
AU - Kong, W.
AU - Sessa, S.
AU - Magistro, D.
AU - Zhang, D.
AU - Imtiaz, U.
AU - Cosentino, S.
AU - Zecca, M.
AU - Ishii, H.
AU - Takeuchi, H.
AU - Kawashima, R.
AU - Takanishi, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/2/10
Y1 - 2014/2/10
N2 - Decreasing balance ability in older adults increases the risk of falls. According to the literature, two balance strategies are revealed, ankle strategy and hip strategy. The aim of this paper is to study the postural stability of the one leg stance on the frontal plane and verify the strategy used in older adults. A hypothesis about two different patterns in hip strategy is made and experiments were conducted with 80 healthy elderly subjects. The posture is captured by Waseda Bioinstrumentation -4 Rev Inertial Measurement Unit (WB-4R IMU). The preliminary analysis shows the dominant pattern is moving the upper body in a lateral direction when losing balance on frontal plane.
AB - Decreasing balance ability in older adults increases the risk of falls. According to the literature, two balance strategies are revealed, ankle strategy and hip strategy. The aim of this paper is to study the postural stability of the one leg stance on the frontal plane and verify the strategy used in older adults. A hypothesis about two different patterns in hip strategy is made and experiments were conducted with 80 healthy elderly subjects. The posture is captured by Waseda Bioinstrumentation -4 Rev Inertial Measurement Unit (WB-4R IMU). The preliminary analysis shows the dominant pattern is moving the upper body in a lateral direction when losing balance on frontal plane.
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U2 - 10.1109/HIC.2014.7038936
DO - 10.1109/HIC.2014.7038936
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84949923132
T3 - 2014 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Conference, HIC 2014
SP - 307
EP - 310
BT - 2014 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Conference, HIC 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Conference, HIC 2014
Y2 - 8 October 2014 through 10 October 2014
ER -