title: Assessment of fall risk using a pneumatic pattern generator.
abstract: This paper describes the design and construction of a new equipment for the fall risk investigation. It comprehends a portable device including 3 mono-axial accelerometers and 3 rate-gyroscopes which assesses the trunk sway and provides (Giansanti et al 2005 IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.) and a pneumatic pressure variation pattern generator. The bench test successfully passed. Preliminary results indicates the feasibility of using the equipment as a tool for the assessment of the fall-risk.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Tecnologie e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, via Regina Elena 299, 00161 Roma.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Maccioni
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Giansanti
authors.forename: Velio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Macellari
mesh_terms: D000054:Acceleration; D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002138:Calibration; D006801:Humans; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors