{"id":263,"date":"2016-07-04T14:50:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/?p=263"},"modified":"2016-08-02T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:00:29","slug":"determining-the-frequency-and-circumstances-of-falls-across-the-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/determining-the-frequency-and-circumstances-of-falls-across-the-lifespan\/","title":{"rendered":"Determining the frequency and circumstances of falls across the lifespan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Falls have serious and debilitating consequences for all ages. While there is extensive research on falls in older adults, falls in other age groups are understudied. Our research demonstrates that even young healthy adults have a high fall and injury rate, and that most falls occurred while the participants were simply walking. This observation highlights the inherent instability of biped locomotion.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Therefore, falls are not a trivial problem for young adults, and this research will be extended to examine falls across the lifespan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">PI \u2013 Dr. Shirley Rietdyk<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><em><span class=\"s1\">Students \u2013 HyeYoung Cho, Michel Heijnen<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/slips-1024x501.png\" alt=\"Trips and slips are among the leading causes of falls.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"501\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falls have serious and debilitating consequences for all ages. While there is extensive research on falls in older adults, falls in other age groups are understudied. Our research demonstrates that even young healthy adults have a high fall and injury rate, and that most falls occurred while the participants were simply walking. This observation highlights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-biomechanics","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}