Background and purpose The ability to rise from a chair to reach a standing position is
impaired after stroke. This paper aims to review for the first time the factors that impact the …

As an important movement of the daily living activities, sit-to-stand (STS) movement is
usually a difficult task facing elderly and dependent people. In this article, a novel …

Sit-to-stand (STS) tests measure the ability to get up from a chair, reproducing an important
component of daily living activity. As this functional task is essential for human …

Objectives This systematic review aimed to pool available evidence of differences in trunk
and lower extremity biomechanics during the different phases of a sit-to-stand (STS) task …

Background: Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common degenerative disease among the older
people that severely affects their daily life. Previous studies have confirmed that movement …

Background Motion sensors offer the possibility to obtain spatiotemporal measures of
mobility-related activities such as sit-stand and stand-sit transitions. However, the …

Background The sit-to-stand movement requires balance control and coordination between
the trunk and lower limbs. For these reasons, it is commonly used in clinics for evaluating …

Background Slowness of movement is a factor that may cause a decrease of quality of daily
life. Mobility in the elderly and people with movement impairments may be improved by …

Introduction. Sit-to-stand (SitTS) and stand-to-sit (StandTS) are very important functional
tasks that become compromised in stroke patients. As in other voluntary movements, they …

The focus of this paper was on finding wrist sensor-derived features for detecting highly
acute fall risk from the sit-to-stand transitions performed in a non-ambulatory environment …