1. Relationship Between Obesity and Falls by Middle-Aged and Older Women
Noah J. Rosenblatt, PhD, Mark D. Grabiner, PhD 
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 
Volume 93, Issue 4, Pages (April 2012)
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2. Fig 1
(A) In Study 2, subjects walked while wearing a full-body safety harness. A pneumatic obstacle was triggered to rise from the laboratory floor and obstruct the motion of the foot of the swing limb (ie, the left limb). Subjects then used either an elevating or lowering strategy to recover, as described in the text. Here a lowering strategy was used. The subject lowered the obstructed left foot to the ground prior to initiating a recovery step with the right limb (not shown). (B) The subject was completely supported by the safety harness well before she extended the recovery limb in front of her body and was categorized as a during-step faller. Four of 6 obese fallers were during-step fallers who, similarly, unsuccessfully attempted a lowering strategy with little or no stepping response of the recovery limb. Note that the BMI for the subject shown (BMI=42.1) is above the average for the obese group (BMI ± SD, 35.5±3.8).
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