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The Improvement of Turning Ability is a Key Objective for Fall-Risk Reduction in Individuals with Impaired Dynamic Stability

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Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III (ICNR 2018)

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Turning difficulty is a sign of balance instability and may be indicative of elevated fall risk. Features extracted from the 90° turn suggest that this turn type is the most unstable type of turn in older adults with compromised balance control. Since the 90° turn is also the most common type of turn executed during activities of daily living, we recommend targeting movement strategies specific to 90° turning during therapeutic intervention. Specific neuro-rehabilitation strategies to improve/optimize turning ability in individuals with compromised stability may significantly contribute to fall-risk reduction. The adoption of quantitative tools for the assessment and monitoring of turning quality is advisable.

This study was supported by the Italian Ministry for ForeignAffairs—Direzione Generale per la Promozione del Sistema Paese (Chiari, PI).

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  1. Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Julia Marshall Leach, Sabato Mellone, Pierpaolo Palumbo & Lorenzo Chiari

  2. Health Sciences and Technologies-Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Sabato Mellone & Lorenzo Chiari

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Lorenzo Masia

  2. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Translational Neural Engineering Area, The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy

    Silvestro Micera

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, TX, USA

    Metin Akay

  4. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José L. Pons

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Leach, J.M., Mellone, S., Palumbo, P., Chiari, L. (2019). The Improvement of Turning Ability is a Key Objective for Fall-Risk Reduction in Individuals with Impaired Dynamic Stability. In: Masia, L., Micera, S., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III. ICNR 2018. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_59

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