Clinical evaluation of fall risk in older adults who use lower-limb prostheses: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

No reviews or evidence-based clinical protocols exist to evaluate fall risk in older adults who use lower-limb prostheses, despite falls being prevalent and costly in this population. This scoping review sought to determine assessments, defined as clinical outcome measures and gait parameters, associated with fall risk in this population to determine if a systematic review is warranted and help inform an evidence-based clinical protocol.

Methods

Google Scholar, PubMed, and Scopus were searched on April 19th, 2022 to include peer-reviewed original research. Included articles reported relationships between falls and clinical outcome measures or gait parameters in older adults who use transtibial or transfemoral prostheses. Clinical outcome measures included self-rep

SUBMITTER: Finco MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10023358 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature