A simple gait-stabilizing device reduces outdoor falls and nonserious injurious falls in fall-prone older people during the winter

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 943-947

  McKiernan, Fergus Eoin ^a  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Falls; Nonserious injurious falls; Older people; Winter; Yaktrax Walker

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FALLING; GAIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOE; UNITED STATES; WINTER; FEMALE; INJURY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SEASON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ICE; SNOW;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; ICE; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SEASONS; SHOES; SNOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 23444442578     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53302.x     Document Type: Article

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