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Kim van Schooten
Current Appointments
Senior Research Fellow
Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Population Health, UNSW
Key Research Areas
Kim van Schooten is a senior research fellow at NeuRA and a conjoint senior lecturer at UNSW, supported by the Human Frontier Science Program. She obtained her PhD 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 mobility monitoring 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 preventing mobility impairments and falls.
Publications
2025, 01 Aug
Virtual obstacle-avoidance training using daily-life obstacles with physical feedback in older people: A cross-over trial
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1187852696
2025, 09 May
“More Than Intensity: It Is How Pain Affects What I Do”: Unveiling the Multifaceted Impact of Pain in Older People on Daily Life
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648251340163
2025 May
Virtual reality obstacle avoidance training can be enhanced by physical feedback via perturbations: A proof-of-concept study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2024.104442
2025, 01 Apr
The effect of pain on gait in older people: A systematic review and meta-analysis
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1183365517
2025, 01 Jan
Wearable Technology in Mobility and Falls Health Care: Finding Consensus on Their Clinical Utility and Identifying a Roadmap to Actual Use
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1184268875
2024, 01 Dec
Efficacy of obstructive sleep apnea treatment in reducing fall risk in older adults: Study protocol for a clinical trial
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1182104992
2024, 01 Sep
The relationship between pain, quality of life and physical activity in older community living Australians
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1174439839
2024, 13 Aug
The Impact of Misaligned Perceived and Objective Fall Risk in Cognitively Impaired Older People
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1173989825
2024, 01 Aug
External Validation and Further Exploration of Fall Prediction Models Based on Questionnaires and Daily-Life Trunk Accelerometry
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1173113228
2024, 01 Jun
Brain and brawn in balance: Central processing speed and muscle torque development speed are independently associated with the ability to recover balance with feet-in-place
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1170615377
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