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Cameron Hicks


Current Appointments

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Cameron Hicks is a PhD candidate and Research Assistant at Neuroscience Research Australia and works as a project officer for the Australia and New Zealand Fall Prevention Society. He previously trained as an Exercise Physiologist working in Residential Aged Care Facilities before moving into Fall Prevention Research. His PhD focusses on determining optimal balance and gait assessments for predicting falls in community-dwelling older people.


Publications

2024, 01 Oct

Two simple modifications to the World Falls Guidelines algorithm improves its ability to stratify older people into low, intermediate and high fall risk groups

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae192

2024 Oct

Clinician acceptability of the ReacStep reactive balance training program for fall prevention

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/pri.2133

2024 Apr

A custom-built step exergame training programme to prevent falls in people with multiple sclerosis: A multicentre randomised controlled trial

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1177/13524585241229360

2024 Jan

Exergame and cognitive training for preventing falls in community-dwelling older people: a randomized controlled trial

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02739-0

2023, 12 May

smart±step exergame and seated computer brain training for preventing falls in community-dwelling older people: a 12-month randomised controlled trial.

View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2852524/v1

2023 May

Training reactive balance using trips and slips in people with multiple sclerosis: A blinded randomised controlled trial

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2023.104607

2021 Sep

Ladder Use in Older People: Type, Frequency, Tasks and Predictors of Risk Behaviours

View full journal-article on https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/18/9799

2020 Dec

Reduced strength, poor balance and concern about falls mediate the relationship between knee pain and fall risk in older people

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-1487-2

2020 Mar

Identifying Key Risk Factors for Dizziness Handicap in Middle-Aged and Older People

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2019.08.016

2020, 20 Feb

Reduced strength, poor balance and concern about falls mediate the relationship between knee pain and fall risk in older people

View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.12970/v3