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Environment Using Biomedical Sensors

Elderly fall risk assessment is important to prevent injuries and reduce costs. While the standard Timed Up and Go (TUG) test assesses basic walking, it does not evaluate adaptability to environmental challenges. The authors propose four modified TUG tests involving environmental variations and obstacles to better evaluate fall risk. They also developed the Smart Insole TUG system which uses biomedical sensors in insoles to provide real-time analysis of spatial-temporal gait features during the modified TUG tests with over 92% accuracy in metrics and phase segmentation.

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Environment Using Biomedical Sensors

Elderly fall risk assessment is important to prevent injuries and reduce costs. While the standard Timed Up and Go (TUG) test assesses basic walking, it does not evaluate adaptability to environmental challenges. The authors propose four modified TUG tests involving environmental variations and obstacles to better evaluate fall risk. They also developed the Smart Insole TUG system which uses biomedical sensors in insoles to provide real-time analysis of spatial-temporal gait features during the modified TUG tests with over 92% accuracy in metrics and phase segmentation.

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Environment Using Biomedical Sensors

Abstract

With the growth of the elder population, fall risk evaluation is crucial to
prevent elders from serious injuries, as well as reduce related financial burdens.
A balance assessment, Timed Up and Go (TUG), has been widely used to
estimate fall risk. The standardized TUG focuses on flat ground walking with
no environmental variance. Therefore, it falls short of assessing an individual’s
gait adaptability. Being able to adjust steps in response to environmental
changes, for example, needing to navigate around or over a child’s toy left on
the sidewalk, is essential to avoid fall risk and fundamental to community
ambulation. To this end, we propose four environment-adapting TUGs designed
to assess one’s ability to adapt gait in complex environments and a compatible
system named Smart Insole TUG (SITUG), which provides real-time, feature-
rich, and ease-of operation TUG analysis. Based on experimental results,
SITUG is capable of extracting gait related spatial-temporal features with all
mean accuracies over 92%. Besides, the system achieves a mean accuracy of
92.23% in segmenting five TUG phases

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