Assessing elderly’s functional balance and mobility via analyzing data from waist-mounted tri-axial wearable accelerometers in timed up and go tests

Abstract Background Poor balance has been cited as one of the key causal factors of falls. Timely detection of balance impairment can help identify the elderly prone to falls and also trigger early interventions to prevent them. The goal of this study was to develop a surrogate approach for assessin...

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Main Authors: Lisha Yu, Yang Zhao, Hailiang Wang, Tien-Lung Sun, Terrence E. Murphy, Kwok-Leung Tsui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-03-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-021-01463-4