Aging effect on successful reactive-recovery from unexpected slips

ISBN-13: 9783639158908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 108 str.

Jian Liu

Opis

Fall accidents represent a tremendous health problemto the society, both in terms of human suffering andeconomic losses. Improved understanding ofage-related biomechanical characteristics in responseto unexpected slip perturbations would enhance ourability to identify the successful reactive-recoverymechanisms involved in slip and fall accidents. Thisbook described a laboratory study having both youngand elderly participants walk over a slipperysurface. A 3D lower extremity joint moment analysiswas performed to those trials that participantssuccessfully recovered their balance. The findingsindicated significant age-related differences injoint moment generation patterns. The informationpresented in the book would help develop effectivefall prevention strategies and is intended forresearchers in the field of human balance andstability control.

O autorze

Dr. Jian Liu is an assistant professor at Department of Health
and Human Performance at University of Houston in Texas, USA.
His research is primarily concerned with developing fall risk
assessment tools based on gait dynamic stability measures and
preventing fall accidents using prior-to-impact automatic fall
event detection technology.