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Dr
Kim van Schooten
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Kim van Schooten is a senior postdoctoral fellow at NeuRA and conjoint senior lecturer at UNSW supported by the Human Frontier Science Program. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2014 from the faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). She was a Mitacs & Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research postdoctoral fellow at the faculty of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University and the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, University of British Columbia (Canada). Her research focuses on balance control and fall risk in seniors. She is particularly interested in the underlying mechanisms of balance impairments, and methodologies for ambulatory monitoring of mobility using wearable sensors. Through a combination of experimental and epidemiological studies, she studies how people maintain and recover balance during daily-life activities, to improve our understanding of why falls occur and to reveal targets for the prevention of mobility impairments and falls.
Publications
2024, 02 Feb
Protocol of a 12-week eHealth programme designed to reduce concerns about falling in community-living older people: Own Your Balance randomised controlled trial
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1168540469
2024, 24 Jan
Effects of a multicomponent physical activity programme, Mobility-Fit, compared with a standard care lower limb strengthening programme, to promote safe mobility among older adults in care facilities: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1168240987
2023, 24 Nov
Association of Prospective Falls in Older People With Ubiquitous Step-Based Fall Risk Parameters Calculated From Ambulatory Inertial Signals: Secondary Data Analysis
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.2196/49587
2023, 01 Oct
Fall risk stratification of community-living older people. Commentary on the world guidelines for fall prevention and management
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1165313953
2023, 01 Oct
Theoretical framework of concerns about falling in older people: the role of health literacy
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1164761907
2023, 02 Jun
Association of prospective falls in older people with ubiquitous step-based fall risk parameters calculated from ambulatory inertial signals: retrospective observational data analysis study (Preprint)
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.49587
2023, 01 Jun
A Self-Guided Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Reduce Fear of Falling in Older People: a Randomised Controlled Trial
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1148382929
2023, 24 Apr
Feasibility, Reliability, and Safety of Remote Five Times Sit to Stand Test in Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15092434
2023, 01 Apr
Circumstances of Falls During Sit-to-Stand Transfers in Older People: A Cohort Study of Video-Captured Falls in Long-Term Care
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1152787400
2023, 01 Jan
Editorial: Women in Biomechanics and Control of Human Movement: 2022–2023
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1166882900
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