Correlation Between Slip Severity and Muscle Synergies of Slipping

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• Personal Author:
  Beschorner K ; Hur P ; Nazifi MM
• Description:
  Slips, trips and falls caused 27 percent of the total days-away-from-work cases in 2014 and fall injuries have been growing. Slipping is the main trigger to falls in working adults. Understanding the contributing factors to slips and falls is an important step toward fall prevention. Specifically, motor patterns associated with "hazardous slips", which are more likely to result in falls, are of important concern. It has been reported that human central nervous system controls motor tasks using a lower dimensional set of muscle modules, called muscle synergies. Previously, muscle synergies of healthy young adults during slipping were found to be shared with normal walking. However, previous research has not examined muscle synergies in the context of slip severity. This gap is important since this research may either reveal the cause of severe slips or the typical response to severe slips. The objective of this study is to look into the muscle synergies and activation coefficients of "severe slippers" and "mild slippers" to determine if there is a significant difference between the two groups. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Age Factors Biomechanical Phenomena Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety
• Keywords:
  Age Factors Biomechanics Injury Prevention Muscle Physiology Risk Management Slips, Trips, And Falls STF
• Publisher:
  American Society of Biomechanics
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Pennsylvania ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  112-113
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20052348
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 2-5, 2016, Raleigh, North Carolina. Newark, DE: American Society of Biomechanics, 2016 Aug; :112-113
• Email:
  beschorn@pitt.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  University of Pittsburgh
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20020801
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 2-5, 2016, Raleigh, North Carolina
• End Date:
  20110831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5594f284cb1ef6472721af39c49c911d7a34aab5028839636beb0f8fd5e1b49e98b135dd15aefcbc4a389e645b9ead64e832b089d4e1acf2b12d3a49707e42a1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/211891/cdc_211891_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 175.41 KB ]