According to recent studies, mobility and balance problems represent a risk factor for elderly
people, resulting into augmented fall probabilities with negative impact on medical, social …

Wearable sensors are de facto revolutionizing the assessment of standing balance. The aim
of this work is to review the state-of-the-art literature that adopts this new posturographic …

The incidence of fall-related injuries in older adults is high. Given the significant and adverse
outcomes that arise from injurious falls in older adults, it is of the utmost importance to …

The maintenance of balance in upright stance is traditionally evaluated using heavy and
expensive force platforms. The aim of this work is to prove the usefulness of a low-cost …

Falls are the number one cause of injury in older adults. An individual's risk for falls depends
on his or her frequency of imbalance episodes, and ability to recover balance following …

Embedded hardware systems, such as wearable devices, are widely used for health status
monitoring of ageing people to improve their well-being. In this context, it becomes …

Falling is one of the main causes of trauma, disability, and death among older people.
Inertial sensors‐based devices are able to detect falls in controlled environments. Often this …

Loss of balance is prevalent in the older population and also in people who have mobility
impairment. The primary aim of the present paper is to develop an efficient classifier to …

The dynamics of the human body has generated considerable recent research interest
among scientist devoted to reducing the number of injuries and for performance …

Objective The aim of this study was to test the coherence of a wearable device, an inertial
measurement unit (IMU) against the gold standard; also, to test the intra-trial reliability. This …