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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"fall recovery"”.
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Optimization-based Motion Planning for Humanoid Fall Recovery
… humanoid robots suffer from a great risk of falling resulting from a relatively high center of mass position and a limited area of region of support. This prone-to-falling characteristic of humanoids’ bipedal walking makes them much harder to control, and falls can cause costly failures. As a …
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Transition between single and multiple stepping strategies in forward fall recovery
… and that number of steps is a predictor of fall risk. In order to better understand how a stepping strategy is chosen, we investigated the transition between single and multiple stepping strategies in young adults. Methods. Each participant responded to a sudden release from an initial …
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Identifying fall prevention and management needs of people post-stroke who use wheelchairs and scooters
… an understudied and underserved population in fall prevention research. While falls are widely documented among people post-stroke who are ambulatory, little is known about fall incidence, consequences, contributing factors, and fall prevention programs among people post-stroke who use WC/S …
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Fall management among full time wheelchair users
Falls are a common health issue among full-time wheelchair users, however there is a lack of evidenced-based fall prevention and management strategies for wheelchair users. The main objective of this dissertation is to develop a fall management program for full-time wheelchair users. To develop a …
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Morning light : the secret history of the Tagish Lake Fireball
… by the United States military. A week after the fall, outdoorsman Jim Brook discovered black meteorites on the frozen surface of Tagish Lake, in northern British Columbia. He kept the stones pristine: frozen and untouched-a first for any meteorite fall. He made his discovery known to a few …