Many elderly people experience difficulty with independent living after injuries associated with falls. This study aimed to examine the influence of fall characteristics and physical function level on the severity of fall related injuries. The surveys were conducted in 1955 community dwelling elderly. The questions regarded the following: fall experience within the past year, fall direction, fa...

BACKGROUND Older adults living in long term care (LTC) settings are vulnerable to fall-related injuries. There is a need to develop and implement evidence-based approaches to address fall injury prevention in LTC. Knowledge translation (KT) interventions to support the uptake of evidence-based approaches to fall injury prevention in LTC need to be responsive to the learning needs of LTC staff a...

objectives this study is designed to investigate the epidemiology of home-related injuries in kashan, iran. background injury is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the world, and the home is one of the most common places for these types of injuries. patients and methods this investigation is a retrospective cross-sectional study on existing data from the data bank of the tr...

This article presents and analyses injury incidence rates for amateur and professional racing jockeys in Ireland, France and Britain by means of a retrospective study and review of published data. Amateur jump racing was seen to have the highest fall risk in these three countries (between 115 and 140 falls/1000 rides). Jump racing also had the highest rates of injury/ride amongst both amateur a...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of, and risk factors for, receiving medical attention for a recent injurious fall among middle-aged and older adults who have multiple sclerosis (MS). DESIGN Survey. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS Seven hundred people with MS, age 55 years or older and living in the United States, were randomly selected from the North American Research Committee ...

BACKGROUND Falls in Wisconsin account for 74.1% of all injury-related deaths for persons 65 years and older. This study describes the rate, demographics, and characteristics of fall-related mortality in one Wisconsin county over an 8-year period from 2005 to 2012. METHODS Retrospective review of 841 death investigation records of Waukesha County residents 65 years and older who died from a fa...

introduction: trauma due to accidents or fall from height is a major cause of disability and mortality. the present study was designed aiming to evaluate the baseline characteristics of fall from height victims presenting to emergency department (ed). methods: this prospective cross-sectional study evaluates the baseline characteristics of fall from height cases presenting to eds of three educa...

OBJECTIVE The current study is intended to evaluate the stability of a scissor lift and the performance of various fall-arrest harnesses/lanyards during drop/fall-arrest conditions and to quantify the dynamic loading to the head/ neck caused by fall-arrest forces. BACKGROUND No data exist that establish the efficacy of fall-arrest systems for use on scissor lifts or the injury potential from ...