Assessing the stability of human locomotion: a review of current measures

SM Bruijn, OG Meijer, PJ Beek… - Journal of the Royal …, 2013‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Falling poses a major threat to the steadily growing population of the elderly in modern-day
society. A major challenge in the prevention of falls is the identification of individuals who …

Kinematic measures for assessing gait stability in elderly individuals: a systematic review

D Hamacher, NB Singh… - Journal of The …, 2011‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Falls not only present a considerable health threat, but the resulting treatment and loss of
working days also place a heavy economic burden on society. Gait instability is a major fall …

A systematic review of the effect of ageing and falls history on minimum foot clearance characteristics during level walking

RS Barrett, PM Mills, RK Begg - Gait & posture, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Minimum foot clearance (MFC) is the minimum vertical distance between the lowest point of
the foot of the swing leg and the walking surface during the swing phase of the gait cycle …

Kinematic variability, fractal dynamics and local dynamic stability of treadmill walking

P Terrier, O Dériaz - Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 2011‏ - Springer
Background Motorized treadmills are widely used in research or in clinical therapy. Small
kinematics, kinetics and energetics changes induced by Treadmill Walking (TW) as …

Estimating fall risk with inertial sensors using gait stability measures that do not require step detection

F Riva, MJP Toebes, M Pijnappels, R Stagni… - Gait & posture, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Falls have major consequences both at societal (health-care and economy) and individual
(physical and psychological) levels. Questionnaires to assess fall risk are commonly used in …

Gait variability and stability measures: Minimum number of strides and within-session reliability

F Riva, MC Bisi, R Stagni - Computers in biology and medicine, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Background Several methods are proposed in the literature for the quantification of gait
variability/stability from trunk accelerations. Since outputs can be influenced by …

Moving from laboratory to real life conditions: Influence on the assessment of variability and stability of gait

P Tamburini, F Storm, C Buckley, MC Bisi, R Stagni… - Gait & posture, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The availability of wearable sensors allows shifting gait analysis from the traditional
laboratory settings, to daily life conditions. However, limited knowledge is available about …

Single channel EEG analysis for detection of depression

M Bachmann, J Lass, H Hinrikus - Biomedical Signal Processing and …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Purpose This study is aimed at finding a simple method for detection of depression based on
the analysis of single channel short-term EEG signals. Materials and methods The accuracy …

Assessing the temporal organization of walking variability: a systematic review and consensus guidelines on detrended fluctuation analysis

DK Ravi, V Marmelat, WR Taylor, KM Newell… - Frontiers in …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Human physiological signals are inherently rhythmic and have a hallmark feature in that
even distant intrasignal measurements are related to each other. This relationship is termed …

Minimum toe clearance adaptations to floor surface irregularity and gait speed

BW Schulz - Journal of biomechanics, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Toe speed during gait generally nears its maximum while its height reaches a local minima
approximately halfway through swing phase. Trips are thought to frequently occur at these …