Sensors for Assessing and Rehabilitating Posture, Balance and Gait in Children and Older Adults
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 2068
Special Issue Editor
Interests: physical therapy; balance; gait; motor skills; motor performance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The assessment of posture, balance, gait, and gross and fine motor skills has been increasingly necessary to devise prevention and rehabilitation strategies, whether in children or in older adults. In children, these assessments are able to identify lower performance and delays in motor development and motor performance, enabling timely rehabilitation to improve posture, balance, gait and other motor skills, such as manual activities, running and vertical jumping even in childhood, without major repercussions for the child in adult life. As for older adults, evaluations of these outcomes are important, as they are capable of predicting declines in physical and functional capacity, demonstrating how this population is at risk in relation to their independence, and functionality, above all, in relation to the risk of falls, enabling the early detection of these problems and implementing rehabilitation in a timely manner for older adults. Given the above, assessments with more sensitive instruments for detecting minor changes in these outcomes, such as sensors, may be more effective, useful and capable of identifying small changes early. Thus, this Special Issue intends to provide evidence of studies that used instruments with sensors to assess and rehabilitate human posture, balance, gait and gross and fine motor skills in children or in older adults, through instruments such as force platforms, computerized dynamic posturography, accelerometers, wearable sensors, inertial sensors, virtual environments, augmented reality and virtual reality, among other sensors.
Dr. Renato de Souza Melo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- balance
- children
- cochlear implant
- deafness
- dizziness
- falls
- gait
- motor skills
- older adults
- physical therapy
- perception
- posture
- sensors
- walking
- wearable sensors
- vertigo
- vestibular diseases
- virtual reality
