HELLEC , Justine

The risk of falling among the elderly increases with age. As the consequences of falls are numerous and damaging, the development of prevention strategies is crucial. To estimate the risk of falling, various functional clinical tests are used, but these tests are punctual, carried out in a laboratory environment and based on reference...

Purpose: Kinematic and kinetic assessments of Sit-to-Stand (STS) usually done in laboratory settings involve strong technical expertise and expensive equipment. As an alternative, embedded inertial motion sensors can be used to quantify key parameters of selected everyday life movements such as STS. Sensors can be integrated in different...

The study aims to determine the validity and reproducibility of step duration and step length parameters measured during walking in healthy participants using an accelerometer embedded in smart eyeglasses. Twenty young volunteers participated in two identical sessions comprising a 30 s gait assessment performed at three different treadmill...

Falls and frailty status are often associated with a decline in physical capacity and multifactorial assessment is highly recommended. Based on the functional and biomechanical parameters measured during clinical tests with an accelerometer integrated into smart eyeglasses, the purpose was to characterize a population of older adults through an...

Background As people age, their physical capacities (eg, walking and balance) decline and the risk of falling rises. Yet, classic fall detection devices are poorly accepted by older adults. Because they often wear eyeglasses as they go about their daily activities, daily monitoring to detect and prevent falls with smart eyeglasses might be more...