Automatic recognition of falls in gait-slip training: Harness load cell based criteria

• Published in: Journal of biomechanics Vol. 44; no. 12; pp. 2243 - 2249
• Main Authors: Yang, Feng, Pai, Yi-Chung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 11.08.2011; Elsevier; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Accidental Falls - prevention & control; Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aging; Automation; Balance loss; Biological and medical sciences; Biomechanics. Biorheology; Body Weight; Equipment Design; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gait; Harness assistance; Humans; Outcome recognition; Perturbation training; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Postural Balance; Regression Analysis; Reproducibility of Results; Stress, Mechanical; Tissues, organs and organisms biophysics; Vertebrates: body movement. Posture. Locomotion. Flight. Swimming. Physical exercise. Rest. Sports; Walking; Outcome recognition; Balance loss; Perturbation training; Automation; Harness assistance; Prognosis; Gait; Equilibrium; Posture; Biomechanics; Fall; Automatic recognition; Biomedical engineering

Over-head-harness systems, equipped with load cell sensors, are essential to the participants' safety and to the outcome assessment in perturbation training. The purpose of this study was to first develop an automatic outcome recognition criterion among young adults for gait-slip training and t...