Publications by authors named "Stefanie Vandevyvere"
Background: Identifying older adults with increased fall risk due to poor postural control on a large scale is only possible through omnipresent and low cost measuring devices such as the inertial measurement units (IMU) embedded in smartphones. However, the correlation between smartphone measures of postural stability and state-of-the-art force plate measures has never been assessed in a large sample allowing us to take into account age as a covariate.
Research Question: How reliably can postural stability be measured with a smartphone embedded IMU in comparison to a force plate?
Methods: We assessed balance in 97 adults aged 50-90 years in four different conditions (eyes open, eyes closed, semi-tandem and dual-task) in the anterio-posterior and medio-lateral directions.