Aging effect on successful reactive-recovery from unexpected slips

Fall accidents represent a tremendous health problem
to the society, both in terms of human suffering and
economic losses. Improved understanding of
age-related biomechanical characteristics in response
to unexpected slip perturbations would enhance our
ability to identify the successful reactive-recovery
mechanisms involved in slip and fall accidents. This
book described a laboratory study having both young
and elderly participants walk over a slippery
surface. A 3D lower extremity joint moment analysis
was performed to those trials that participants
successfully recovered their balance. The findings
indicated significant age-related differences in
joint moment generation patterns. The information
presented in the book would help develop effective
fall prevention strategies and is intended for
researchers in the field of human balance and
stability control.

Autorentext

Dr. Jian Liu is an assistant professor at Department of Healthand Human Performance at University of Houston in Texas, USA. His research is primarily concerned with developing fall risk assessment tools based on gait dynamic stability measures and preventing fall accidents using prior-to-impact automatic fall event detection technology.

Klappentext

Fall accidents represent a tremendous health problemto the society, both in terms of human suffering andeconomic losses. Improved understanding ofage-related biomechanical characteristics in responseto unexpected slip perturbations would enhance ourability to identify the successful reactive-recoverymechanisms involved in slip and fall accidents. Thisbook described a laboratory study having both youngand elderly participants walk over a slipperysurface. A 3D lower extremity joint moment analysiswas performed to those trials that participantssuccessfully recovered their balance. The findingsindicated significant age-related differences injoint moment generation patterns. The informationpresented in the book would help develop effectivefall prevention strategies and is intended forresearchers in the field of human balance andstability control.