One‐Leg Balance Is an Important Predictor of Injurious Falls in Older Persons

Abstract

One-leg balance appears to be a significant and easy-to-administer predictor of injurious falls, but not of all falls. In our study, it was the strongest individual predictor. However, no single factor seems to be accurate enough to be relied on as a sole predictor of fall risk or fall injury risk because so many diverse factors are involved in falling.

Unipedal Balance Is Affected by Lower Extremity Joint Arthroplasty Procedure 1 Year Following Surgery

“…The decision was made to use 10 s to indicate successful unilateral balance because it is a time-efficient measure that can be performed in high-volume clinics. Five seconds has been suggested as a single leg stance time criterion standard, however this is noticeably lower than age matched controls (17.1-24.3), thus as a result a higher standard of 10 s was selected for the cut-off in the current study [40,41,33,42].…”

A Systematic Review of Yoga for Balance in a Healthy Population

“…The ability to stand on a single leg is an important predictor of falls: One study demonstrated that the chance of sustaining an injury due to a fall is twice as high if one is unable to perform the OLS for 5 seconds. 62 Yoga standing poses that invoke the use of hip abductors and/or adductors, such as tree pose (vrksasana), mirror the biomechanical demands required to successfully execute the OLS. 63 Therefore, one may hypothesize that practicing poses that challenge static balance would lead to improvements in balance.…”

Factors associated to quality of life in active elderly

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