Discrimination of standing postures between young and elderly people based on center of pressure.

ABSTRACT: Posturography is utilized to assess the influence of aging on postural control. Although this measurement is advantageous for finding group-level differences between the young and the elderly, it is unclear whether it has the potential to differentiate elderly individuals who are affected by various impacts of aging. The purpose of this study was to determine the utility of posturography to discriminate elderly individuals from young adults. We investigated the performances of the random forest classifiers constructed from center of pressure (COP) indices for discriminating standing postures between healthy elderly and young people. Postural sways in 19 young and 31 community-dwelling elderly participants were measured using force plates in 4 standing conditions: bipedal standing, standing

SUBMITTER: Fujio K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7794377 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature