Aging and Mixed Perturbation Training
The aim of this project is to investigate the underlying mechanism of perturbation training, the scope of its generalization and retention in real-life fall prevention. In addition, this project explores the possibility of maximizing training effects on both slip and trip fall outcomes among community-dwelling older adults.
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Project title: “Aging and Mixed Perturbation Training to Reduce Falls in Locomotion”
Funding Agency : NIH/NICHD
Grant Account Number: 1R01AG050672 – 01A1
Principal Investigator: Tanvi Bhatt
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Wang, S., Nguyen, T. K., & Bhatt, T. (2023). Trip-related fall risk prediction based on gait pattern in healthy older adults: a machine-learning approach. Sensors, 23(12), 5536.
Wang, S., & Bhatt, T. (2023). Kinematic measures for recovery strategy identification following an obstacle-induced trip in gait. Journal of Motor Behavior, 55(2), 193-201.
Purohit, R., Wang, S., & Bhatt, T. (2023). Effect of aging and cortical stroke on motor adaptation to overground gait-slips: quantifying differences in adaptation rate and adaptation plateau. Biomechanics, 3(1), 29-44.
Wang, S., Pai, Y. C., & Bhatt, T. (2022). Neuromuscular mechanisms of motor adaptation to repeated gait-slip perturbations in older adults. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 19851.
Wang, S., Pai, Y. C., & Bhatt, T. (2022). Kinematic synergies in over-ground slip recovery outcomes: Distinct strategies or a single strategy?. Gait & posture, 95, 270-276.
Wang, S., Pai, Y. C. C., & Bhatt, T. (2022). Gait Slip-Induced Fall-Type Assessment Based on Regular Gait Characteristics in Older Adults. Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 38(3), 148-154.
Wang, S., Wang, Y., Pai, Y. C. C., Wang, E., & Bhatt, T. (2020). Which are the key kinematic and kinetic components to distinguish recovery strategies for overground slips among community-dwelling older adults?. Journal of applied biomechanics, 36(4), 217-227.
Wang, Y., Bhatt, T., Liu, X., Wang, S., Lee, A., Wang, E., & Pai, Y. C. C. (2019). Can treadmill-slip perturbation training reduce immediate risk of over-ground-slip induced fall among community-dwelling older adults?. Journal of biomechanics, 84, 58-66.
Wang, S., Liu, X., Lee, A., & Pai, Y. C. (2017). Can Recovery Foot Placement Affect Older Adults’ Slip-Fall Severity?. Annals of biomedical engineering, 45(8), 1941-1948.
Wang, S., Liu, X., & Pai, Y. C. (2019). Limb collapse or instability? Assessment on cause of falls. Annals of biomedical engineering, 47(3), 767-777.
Wang, S., Bhatt, T., Liu, X., & Pai, Y. C. (2019). The Role of Recovery Lower Limb Segments in Post-Slip Determination of Falls Due to Instability or Limb Collapse. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 1-11.
Wang, S., Varas-Diaz, G., Dusane, S., Wang, Y., & Bhatt, T. (2019). Slip-induced fall-risk assessment based on regular gait pattern in older adults. Journal of Biomechanics, 109334.
Wang, Y., Wang, S., Lee, A., Pai, Y. C., & Bhatt, T. (2019). Treadmill-gait slip training in community-dwelling older adults: mechanisms of immediate adaptation for a progressive ascending-mixed-intensity protocol. Experimental brain research, 237(9), 2305-2317.
Wang, Y., Wang, S., Bolton, R., Kaur, T., & Bhatt, T. (2019). Effects of task-specific obstacle-induced trip-perturbation training: proactive and reactive adaptation to reduce fall-risk in community-dwelling older adults. Aging clinical and experimental research, 1-13.
Lee, A., Bhatt, T., Smith-Ray, R. L., Wang, E., & Pai, Y. C. C. (2019). Gait speed and dynamic stability decline accelerates only in late life: a cross-sectional study in community-dwelling older adults. Journal of geriatric physical therapy, 42(2), 73-80.
Perturbation and neuroimaging
Patel, P. J., Bhatt, T., DelDonno, S. R., Langenecker, S. A., & Dusane, S. (2018). Examining Neural Plasticity for Slip-Perturbation Training: An fMRI Study. Frontiers in neurology, 9.
Bhatt, T., Patel, P., Dusane, S., DelDonno, S. R., & Langenecker, S. A. (2018). Neural mechanisms involved in mental imagery of slip-perturbation while walking: a preliminary fMRI study. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 12.