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Reconstruction of body motion during self-reported losses of balance in community-dwelling older adults.

ABSTRACT: Older adults experience slips, trips, stumbles, and other losses of balance (LOBs). LOBs are more common than falls and are closely linked to falls and fall-injuries. Data about real-world LOBs is limited, particularly information quantifying the prevalence, frequency, and intrinsic and extrinsic circumstances in which they occur. This paper describes a new method to identify and analyze LOBs through long-term recording of community-dwelling older adults. The approach uses wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) on the feet, trunk and one wrist, together with a voice recorder for immediate, time-stamped self-reporting of the type, context and description of LOBs. Following identification of an LOB in the voice recording, concurrent IMU data is used to estimate foot paths and body motions, and to create body animations to analyze the event. In this pilot study, three older adults performed a long-term monitoring study, with four weeks recording LOBs by voice and two concurrent weeks wearing IMUs. This report presents a series of LOB cases to illustrate the proposed method, and how it can contribute to interpretation of the causes and contexts of the LOBs. The context and timing information from the voice records was critical to the process of finding and analyzing LOB events within the voluminous sensor data record, and included much greater detail, specificity, and nuance than past diary or smartphone reporting.

SUBMITTER: Ojeda LV

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398340 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reconstruction of body motion during self-reported losses of balance in community-dwelling older adults.

Ojeda Lauro V LV Adamczyk Peter G PG Rebula John R JR Nyquist Linda V LV Strasburg Debra M DM Alexander Neil B NB

Medical engineering & physics 20181220

Older adults experience slips, trips, stumbles, and other losses of balance (LOBs). LOBs are more common than falls and are closely linked to falls and fall-injuries. Data about real-world LOBs is limited, particularly information quantifying the prevalence, frequency, and intrinsic and extrinsic circumstances in which they occur. This paper describes a new method to identify and analyze LOBs through long-term recording of community-dwelling older adults. The approach uses wearable inertial meas ...[more]

PMID: 30581048

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Reconstruction of body motion during self-reported losses of balance in community-dwelling older adults.

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