Balance quality assessment as an early indicator of physical frailty in older people

Aly Chkeir; Doha Safieddine; Delphine Bera; Michèle Collart; Jean-Luc Novella; M. Drame; David Hewson; Jacques Duchêne

doi:10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591940

Balance quality assessment as an early indicator of physical frailty in older people

Aly Chkeir
, Doha Safieddine
, Delphine Bera
, Michèle Collart
, Jean-Luc Novella
, M. Drame
, David Hewson
, Jacques Duchêne

Institute of Health Research (IHR)

Université de technologie de Troyes
CHU de Reims

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

Frailty is an increasingly common geriatric condition that results in an increased risk of adverse health outcomes such as falls. The most widely-used means of detecting frailty is the Fried phenotype, which includes several objective measures such as grip strength and gait velocity. One method of screening for falls is to measure balance, which can be done by a range of techniques including the assessment of the Centre of Pressure (CoP) during a balance assessment. The Balance Quality Tester (BQT) is a device based on a commercial bathroom scale that can evaluate balance quality. The BQT provides instantaneously the position of the CoP (stabilogram) in both anteroposterior (AP) and mediolateral (ML) directions and can estimate the vertical ground reaction force. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between balance quality assessment and physical frailty. Balance quality was compared to physical frailty in 186 older subjects. Rising rate (RR) was slower and trajectory velocity (TV) was higher in subjects classified as frail for both grip strength and gait velocity (p<;0.05). Balance assessment could be used in conjunction with functional tests of grip strength and gait velocity as a means of screening for frailty.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	nan
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	5368-5371
Volume	2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591940
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2016
Event	Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Orlando Duration: 16 Aug 2016 → 20 Aug 2016

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Conference	Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
City	Orlando
Period	16/08/16 → 20/08/16
Other	Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (16/08/2016-20/08/2016, Orlando)

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Frailty
older people

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Chkeir, A, Safieddine, D, Bera, D, Collart, M, Novella, J-L, Drame, M, Hewson, D & Duchêne, J 2016, Balance quality assessment as an early indicator of physical frailty in older people. in nan. vol. 2016, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 5368-5371, Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Orlando, 16/08/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591940

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