Evaluation of functional deficits and falls risk in the elderly - Methods for preventing falls

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 6179-6182

  Narayanan, Michael R ^a   Scalzi, Maria Elena ^b   Redmond, Stephen J ^a   Lord, Steven R ^a   Celler, Branko G ^a   Lovell, Nigel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ANTEROPOSTERIOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ECONOMIC COSTS; FALLS IN THE ELDERLIES; KNEE EXTENSION; LINEAR LEAST-SQUARES MODEL; MODEL ESTIMATES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950979066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334506     Document Type: Conference Paper

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