Falls in older adults represents an urgent and major global public health concern as they are the leading cause of injury-related mortality and morbidity among the ever growing number of …
Fall Prevention: Current Perspectives, Tools with Evidence
Overview Falls remain an urgent public health concern, increasing in magnitude with the rapidly emerging and growing aging baby-boomer demographic. Older adults sustaining a prior fall are 3 times more …
Performance Measures: Does Performance Really Measure Up?
Balance related performance measures represent the fundamental foundation of physical therapy clinical pay for performance documentation and evidence-based practice. Current clinical balance assessment tools may not be balance domain specific, …
Predictable Perturbations: An Innovative Clinical Perspective
INTRODUCTION Falls are the leading cause of non-fatal injuries and death by injury in the United States, accounting for approximately 48% to 75% of all unintentional injuries reported for adults …