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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 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
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
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
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