Falling is the second most prevalent cause of accidental death in the world. Currently
available clinical tests to assess balance in older people are insufficiently sensitive to screen …

Objective Falls are a serious health problem for older adults. Several studies have identified
the decline of postural balance as one of the main risk factors for falls. Contrary to what may …

We investigate postural sway data dynamics in older adult fallers and non-fallers. Center of
pressure (COP) signals were recorded during quiet standing in 28 older adults. The subjects …

Visually-induced illusions of self-motion (vection) can be compelling for some people, but
they are subject to large individual variations in strength. Do these variations depend, at …

Scaling up and replication of successful innovative integrated care models for chronic
diseases is one of the targets of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy …

The aim of this paper is to explain basic kinematic concepts applied to humanoid robots. The
structure of a Bioloid with three degrees of freedom (DoFs) for the arms and six DoFs for the …

Human postural control is commonly assessed by center of pressure (CoP) displacement
analysis. However, traditional linear parameters do not provide a complete picture of …

Background While several studies have investigated the traditional linear measures in
patients with knee osteoarthritis, no study has yet reported the non-linear structure of …

Background Postural control is an important aspect of physical functioning. Objective To
determine whether postural sway complexity could discriminate asymptomatic sedentary …

Background Adaptive postural control can be impaired in the presence of frailty syndrome,
given that this condition causes homeostatic dysregulation in physiological systems …