TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Detection of baseline and near-fall postural stability
JO  - Conference proceedings - IEEE engineering in medicine and biology society
A1  - Sipp, Amy R.
A1  - Rowley, Blair A.
SP  - 1262
EP  - 1265
VL  - 1
IS  - 
N2  - It is unknown whether there are any measurable warning signs just before a patient falls. This study of postural position just prior to a fall involved a subject standing on a balance beam while wearing a gyroscope-based wireless data acquisition system. Results show a variation in postural position when the subject appeared stable. This occurred well before the subject experienced a fall and could not be classified as pre-fall or fall. The results show that there are two distinguishable levels of postural stability - baseline and near-fall.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1557-170X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -