A multiple segment model of human balance for objective assessment of clinical scales

• Main Author: McGuire, André Ribeiro da Silva
• Other Authors: Low Kin Huat
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Mechanics and dynamics; DRNTU::Science::Medicine::Biomedical engineering; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Simulation and modeling
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72946
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

An increasingly aging population has led to a growth in subjects with balance disorders. For an elderly person, falling is a risk that has to be challenged on a day to day basis and must be monitored efficiently. For a stroke patient, the inability to maintain upright posture is a crippling limitati...