Characteristics of the gait in old people who fall.
Characteristics of the gait in old people who fall.
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老年人跌倒时的步态特征。
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发表时间：
1980
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通讯作者：
B. Isaacs
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作者：
R. Guimarães;B. Isaacs
对30名65岁及以上的人的步态进行了观察，这些人在没有骨损伤的情况下摔倒后不久就入院了。这些被比较了22例年龄相仿的患者，他们在同一家医院住院，最近没有跌倒; 23例正常的活跃的老年人，其中7例最近跌倒; 24例正常的年轻人。住院跌倒者的步态与其他组不同，具有以下特点：速度慢，步长短，步幅窄，步频范围宽，步长变异性大，且变异性随频率增加而增加。这些特征可能反映了步态自动性的丧失，这一发现可能对发病机制和康复有意义。
Observations were made of the gait of 30 people aged 65 and over who were admitted to hospital shortly after suffering a fall without bone injury. These were compared with 22 patients of similar age admitted to the same hospital who had not suffered a recent fall; with 23 normal active old people of whom 7 had fallen recently; and with 24 normal young subjects. The gait of the hospitalized fallers differed from all other groups, and had the following characteristics: slow speed, short step length, narrow stride width, wide range of stepping frequency, large variability of step length, and increasing variability with increasing frequency. These characteristics may reflect loss of automaticity of gait, and this finding may have implications for pathogenesis and rehabilitation.