Abstract:BackgroundFalls represent a major health problem for older adults and often lead to disability and mortality. Each year 30% to 50% of community-dwelling older adults report a fall and almost 75% of falls occur in bedrooms or bathrooms, and 41% of all falls occur during transfers [1,2]. Patients with hip osteoarthritis (OA) have many hip and age-related dysfunctions including muscle weakness, sensory loss, gait and balance deficits, which all increase the risk of falls [3]. Task-specificity has been shown to be… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.