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Qi Huang and Svein Kleiven
The results proposed a new approach to evaluate the protection effectiveness of energy-absorbing floors for fall-related injury prevention. Also, it could help to reduce the huge associated costs related to fall-related injuries among the children and el...
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Woohyoung Jeon, Ahmed Ramadan, Jill Whitall, Nesreen Alissa and Kelly Westlake
Falls in older adults are leading causes of fatal and non-fatal injuries, negatively impacting quality of life among those in this demographic. Most elderly falls occur due to unrecoverable limb collapse during balance control in the single-limb support ...
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Ye-Jiao Mao, Andy Yiu-Chau Tam, Queenie Tsung-Kwan Shea, Yong-Ping Zheng and James Chung-Wai Cheung
Falls are a major problem in hospitals, and physical or chemical restraints are commonly used to ?protect? patients in hospitals and service users in hostels, especially elderly patients with dementia. However, physical and chemical restraints may be une...
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Nazia Ejaz, Saad Jawaid Khan, Fahad Azim, Mehwish Faiz, Emil Teu?an, Alin Ple?a, Alexandru Ianosi-Andreeva-Dimitrova and Sergiu-Dan Stan
Fragility fractures, caused by low-energy trauma, are a significant global health concern, with 158 million people aged 50 and over at risk. Hip fractures, a common issue in elderly patients, are often linked to underlying conditions such as osteoporosis...
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Christos Goumopoulos, Emmanouil Drakakis and Dimitris Gklavakis
The GAME2AWE platform aims to provide a versatile tool for elderly fall prevention through exergames that integrate exercises, and simulate real-world environments and situations to train balance and reaction time using augmented and virtual reality tech...
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Yue Ting Tang and Roman Romero-Ortuno
The prevention of falls in older people requires the identification of the most important risk factors. Frailty is associated with risk of falls, but not all falls are of the same nature. In this work, we utilised data from The Irish Longitudinal Study o...
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Silvia Giovannini, Fabrizio Brau, Vincenzo Galluzzo, Domenico Alessandro Santagada, Claudia Loreti, Lorenzo Biscotti, Alice Laudisio, Giuseppe Zuccalà and Roberto Bernabei
A fall is an event where a person unintentionally and traumatically finds themselves on the floor or a lower level. Falls are very common, especially in the older adult population. One in four people falls at least once a year after age 65. Because of fa...
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Andrzej Mroczkowski
(1) Background: The aim of this article is to investigate the susceptibility to head injuries in physical education students who do not train a specific sports discipline and those who use the fall performed backward with side aligning of the body techni...
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Vigneshkumar C, Urmi Ravindra Salve
Fall from height (FFH) in the construction industry has earned much attention among researchers in recent years. The present review-based study introduced a science mapping approach to evaluate the FFH studies related to the construction industry. This s...
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Mohammed Hossny and Julie Iskander
Learning to maintain postural balance while standing requires a significant, fine coordination effort between the neuromuscular system and the sensory system. It is one of the key contributing factors towards fall prevention, especially in the older popu...
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