Classification and Definitions of Compensatory Protective Step Strategies in Older Adults: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The risk for an unexpected fall can be due to increasing age, health conditions, and loss of cognitive, sensory, or musculoskeletal functions. Falls have personal and economic consequences in many countries. Different disturbances can occur during gait, such as tripping, slipping, or other unexpected circumstances that can generate a loss of balance. The strategies used to recover balance depend on many factors, but selecting a correct response strategy influences the success of balance recovery.

Objectives

(1) To collect and clarify the definitions of compensatory protective step strategies to recover balance in older adults; (2) to identify the most used methods to induce loss of balance; and (3) to identify the most used spatiotemporal variables in analyzing th

SUBMITTER: Melo-Alonso M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10816706 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature