Most cited papers in Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
What are the most cited papers in Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention?
The most cited paper in Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention is "Sensitivity and False Alarm Rate of a Fall Sensor in Long-Term Fall Detection in the Elderly" (Maarit Kangas, Raija Korpelainen, Irene Vikman et al., 2014), with 18,953 citations. Next come "The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons" (14,583) and "A Short Physical Performance Battery Assessing Lower Extremity Function: Association With Self-Reported Disability and Prediction of Mortality and Nursing Home Admission" (9,940).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,193 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sensitivity and False Alarm Rate of a Fall Sensor in Long-Term Fall Detection in the Elderly Maarit Kangas, Raija Korpelainen, Irene Vikman et al. · Gerontology | 13 Aug 2014 | 18,953 |
| 2 | The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons Diane Podsiadlo, Sandra K. Richardson · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | Feb 1991 | 14,583 |
| 3 | A Short Physical Performance Battery Assessing Lower Extremity Function: Association With Self-Reported Disability and Prediction of Mortality and Nursing Home Admission Jack M. Guralnik, E. M. Simonsick, Luigi Ferrucci et al. · Journal of Gerontology | Mar 1994 | 9,940 |
| 4 | Risk Factors for Falls among Elderly Persons Living in the Community Mary E. Tinetti, Mark R. Speechley, Sandra F. Ginter · New England Journal of Medicine | 29 Dec 1988 | 6,593 |
| 5 | 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities Barbara E. Ainsworth, William L. Haskell, Stephen D. Herrmann et al. · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise | 16 Jun 2011 | 6,392 |
| 6 | Determinants of disparities between perceived and physiological risk of falling among elderly people: cohort study. Kim Delbaere, Jacqueline Close, Henry Brodaty et al. · PubMed | 18 Aug 2010 | 5,433 |
| 7 | Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults Stephanie A. Studenski · JAMA | 4 Jan 2011 | 4,585 |
| 8 | Lower-Extremity Function in Persons over the Age of 70 Years as a Predictor of Subsequent Disability Jack M. Guralnik, Luigi Ferrucci, Eleanor Marie Simonsick et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 2 Mar 1995 | 4,156 |
| 9 | Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community Lesley Diane Gillespie, M. Clare Robertson, William John Gillespie et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | 4 Sep 2012 | 3,954 |
| 10 | The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire Elizabeth Broadbent, Keith J. Petrie, Jodie Main et al. · Journal of Psychosomatic Research | Jun 2006 | 3,477 |
| 11 | Human balance and posture control during standing and walking DA Winter · Gait & Posture | Dec 1995 | 3,442 |
| 12 | Predicting the Probability for Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Using the Timed Up & Go Test Anne Shumway‐Cook, Sandra Brauer, Marjorie Hines Woollacott · Physical Therapy | Sep 2000 | 3,393 |
| 13 | Falls in older people: epidemiology, risk factors and strategies for prevention Laurence Z. Rubenstein · Age and Ageing | 22 Aug 2006 | 3,318 |
| 14 | Optimal feedback control as a theory of motor coordination Emanuel Todorov, Michael I. Jordan · Nature Neuroscience | 28 Oct 2002 | 3,206 |
| 15 | Physical Activity and Public Health in Older Adults Miriam E. Nelson, W. Jack Rejeski, Steven N. Blair et al. · Circulation | Aug 2007 | 3,029 |
| 16 | A 30-s Chair-Stand Test as a Measure of Lower Body Strength in Community-Residing Older Adults C. Jessie Jones, Roberta E. Rikli, William C. Beam · Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport | Jun 1999 | 2,990 |
| 17 | Lower Extremity Function and Subsequent Disability: Consistency Across Studies, Predictive Models, and Value of Gait Speed Alone Compared With the Short Physical Performance Battery Jack M. Guralnik, Luigi Ferrucci, Carl F. Pieper et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series A | Apr 2000 | 2,948 |
| 18 | Measuring balance in the elderly: validation of an instrument. Katherine Berg, Sharon Wood-Dauphinée, Jack Ivan Williams et al. · PubMed | 25 Jan 1993 | 2,933 |
| 19 | The Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale Leah Powell, Anita M. Myers · The Journals of Gerontology Series A | 1995 | 2,919 |
| 20 | Functional Reach: A New Clinical Measure of Balance Pamela Woods Duncan, D. K. Weiner, Julie Chandler et al. · Journal of Gerontology | Nov 1990 | 2,899 |
| 21 | Exercise Training and Nutritional Supplementation for Physical Frailty in Very Elderly People MARIA A. FIATARONE, Evelyn F. O’Neill, Nancy Ryan et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 23 Jun 1994 | 2,881 |
| 22 | Postural orientation and equilibrium: what do we need to know about neural control of balance to prevent falls? Fay Bahling Horak · Age and Ageing | 22 Aug 2006 | 2,771 |
| 23 | Attention and the control of posture and gait: a review of an emerging area of research Marjorie Hines Woollacott, Anne Shumway‐Cook · Gait & Posture | Aug 2002 | 2,704 |
| 24 | Meaningful Change and Responsiveness in Common Physical Performance Measures in Older Adults Subashan Perera, Samir H. Mody, Richard C. Woodman et al. · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 23 Apr 2006 | 2,555 |
| 25 | Central programming of postural movements: adaptation to altered support-surface configurations Fay Bahling Horak, Lewis M. Nashner · Journal of Neurophysiology | Jun 1986 | 2,451 |
| 26 | Sensorimotor Integration in Human Postural Control R.J. Peterka · Journal of Neurophysiology | Sep 2002 | 2,402 |
| 27 | Comfortable and maximum walking speed of adults aged 20—79 years: reference values and determinants Richard Wallace Bohannon · Age and Ageing | 1997 | 2,368 |
| 28 | Motor recovery after stroke: a systematic review Peter Langhorne, Fiona Coupar, Alex Pollock · The Lancet Neurology | 14 Jul 2009 | 2,359 |
| 29 | Gait variability and fall risk in community-living older adults: A 1-year prospective study Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, Dean A. Rios, Helen K. Edelberg · Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | Aug 2001 | 2,354 |
| 30 | Forward Models for Physiological Motor Control R. Chris Miall, Daniel M. Wolpert · Neural Networks | Nov 1996 | 2,321 |
| 31 | The Proprioceptive Senses: Their Roles in Signaling Body Shape, Body Position and Movement, and Muscle Force Uwe Proske, Simon C. Gandevia · Physiological Reviews | Oct 2012 | 2,247 |
| 32 | The role of executive function and attention in gait Galit Yogev‐Seligmann, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, Nir Giladi · Movement Disorders | 3 Dec 2007 | 2,194 |
| 33 | A Multifactorial Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Falling among Elderly People Living in the Community Mary E. Tinetti, Dorothy I. Baker, GAIL J. MCAVAY et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 29 Sep 1994 | 2,163 |
| 34 | Development of a Common Outcome Data Set for Fall Injury Prevention Trials: The Prevention of Falls Network Europe Consensus Sarah E Lamb, Ellen C. Jørstad‐Stein, Klaus A. Hauer et al. · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | Sep 2005 | 2,128 |
| 35 | Development and initial validation of the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I) Lucy Yardley, Nina Beyer, Klaus A. Hauer et al. · Age and Ageing | Nov 2005 | 2,110 |
| 36 | Falls Efficacy as a Measure of Fear of Falling Mary E. Tinetti, David M. Richman, Leah Powell · Journal of Gerontology | Nov 1990 | 2,099 |
| 37 | Age- and Gender-Related Test Performance in Community-Dwelling Elderly People: Six-Minute Walk Test, Berg Balance Scale, Timed Up & Go Test, and Gait Speeds Teresa M Steffen, Timothy A. Hacker, LOUISE A. MOLLINGER · Physical Therapy | Feb 2002 | 2,086 |
| 38 | The Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Motor Recovery after Stroke: A Critical Review of Its Measurement Properties David J. Gladstone, Cynthia J. Danells, Sandra E. Black · Neurorehabilitation and neural repair | Sep 2002 | 2,077 |
| 39 | A simple frailty questionnaire (FRAIL) predicts outcomes in middle aged African Americans John Edward Morley, Theodore K. Malmstrom, Douglas K. Miller · The journal of nutrition health & aging | 19 Jul 2012 | 2,026 |
| 40 | Gait speed at usual pace as a predictor of adverse outcomes in community-dwelling older people an International Academy on Nutrition and Aging (IANA) Task Force Gabor Abellán van Kan, Yves Rolland, Sandrine Andrieu et al. · The journal of nutrition health & aging | Dec 2009 | 2,013 |
| 41 | Risk factors for falls among older adults: A review of the literature Anne Felicia Ambrose, Geet Paul, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff · Maturitas | 21 Mar 2013 | 1,931 |
| 42 | Effect of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy on Upper Extremity Function 3 to 9 Months After Stroke Steven L. Wolf, Carolee Joyce Winstein, J. Philip Miller et al. · JAMA | Nov 2006 | 1,899 |
| 43 | Developing the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 T. Bedirhan Üstün, Somnath Chatterji, Nenad Friedrich Ivan Kostanjsek et al. · Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 20 May 2010 | 1,888 |
| 44 | Measures of postural steadiness: differences between healthy young and elderly adults Thomas E. Prieto, Joel B. Myklebust, Raymond G. Hoffmann et al. · IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering | 1996 | 1,884 |
| 45 | Summary of the Updated American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society Clinical Practice Guideline for Prevention of Falls in Older Persons Panel on Prevention of Falls in Older Persons, American Geriatrics Society and B · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2011 | 1,870 |
| 46 | Validation of Accelerometer Wear and Nonwear Time Classification Algorithm Leena Choi, Zhouwen Liu, Charles Edwards Matthews et al. · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise | 25 Jun 2010 | 1,866 |
| 47 | Dose-response associations between accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time and all cause mortality: systematic review and harmonised meta-analysis Ulf Ekelund, Jakob Tarp, Jostein Steene‐Johannessen et al. · BMJ | 21 Aug 2019 | 1,801 |
| 48 | The condition for dynamic stability At L. Hof, Marnix G.J. Gazendam, W.E. Sinke · Journal of Biomechanics | 23 Jul 2004 | 1,742 |
| 49 | Gait Changes in Older Adults: Predictors of Falls or Indicators of Fear? Brian E. Maki · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | Mar 1997 | 1,738 |
| 50 | World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative Manuel Montero‐Odasso et al. · Age and Ageing | 26 Aug 2022 | 1,695 |
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