Timed Up and Go and Six-Minute Walking Tests with Wearable Inertial Sensor: One Step Further for the Prediction of the Risk of Fall in Elderly Nursing Home People
Assessing the risk of fall in elderly people is a difficult challenge for clinicians. Since falls represent one of the first causes of death in such people, numerous clinical tests have been created and validated over the past 30 years to ascertain the risk of falls. More recently, the developments...
Main Authors: | Fabien Buisseret, Louis Catinus, Rémi Grenard, Laurent Jojczyk, Dylan Fievez, Vincent Barvaux, Frédéric Dierick |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-06-01
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Series: | Sensors |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/11/3207 |
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