TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Using single leg standing time to predict the fall risk in elderly
JO  - Conference proceedings - IEEE engineering in medicine and biology society
A1  - Chang, Chun-Ju
A1  - Chang, Yu-Shin
A1  - Yang, Sai-Wei
SP  - 7456
EP  - 7458
VL  - 2013
IS  - 
N2  - In clinical evaluation, we used to evaluate the fall risk according to elderly falling experience or the balance assessment tool. Because of the tool limitation, sometimes we could not predict accurately. In this study, we first analyzed 15 healthy elderly (without falling experience) and 15 falling elderly (1∼3 time falling experience) balance performance in previous research. After 1 year follow up, there was only 1 elderly fall down during this period. It seemed like that falling experience had a ceiling effect on the falling prediction. But we also found out that using single leg standing time could be more accurately to help predicting the fall risk, especially for the falling elderly who could not stand over 10 seconds by single leg, and with a significant correlation between the falling experience and single leg standing time (r = -0.474, p = 0.026). The results also showed that there was significant body sway just before they falling down, and the COP may be an important characteristic in the falling elderly group.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1557-170X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2013.6611282
ID  - ref1
ER  -