The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Stressing the Postural Response: A Quantitative Method for Testing Balance
Abstract
Using a series of graded destabilizing forces, we have developed a simple quantitative test of the postural response: the Postural Stress Test (PST). Suitable for widespread testing of elderly subjects, the test evaluates the subject's ability to avoid a fall as well as the appropriateness of the response. We have determined that by comparison with young subjects, the elderly controls have compromised although functionally effective balance. On the other hand, the balance response was severely compromised in half of the individuals with a history of falls. Experience with the Postural Stress Test suggests it will predict those elderly individuals with a tendency to fall as well as provide a simple mechanism for studying the balance response in the elderly.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Blessed, G., Tomlinson, B. E., & Roth, M. (1968) · British Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1192/bjp.114.512.797 · Cited by 4,117
Cited by
Postural strategies associated with somatosensory and vestibular loss
Horak, F. B., Nashner, L. M., & Diener, H. C. (1990) · Experimental Brain Research · doi:10.1007/bf00230848 · Cited by 936
The clinical utility of posturography
Visser, J. E., Carpenter, M. G., van der Kooij, H., & Bloem, B. R. (2008) · Clinical Neurophysiology · doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2008.07.220 · Cited by 490
A HYPOTHESIS: The Causes of Hip Fractures
Cummings, S. R., & Nevitt, M. C. (1989) · Journal of Gerontology · doi:10.1093/geronj/44.4.m107 · Cited by 414
Influence of stimulus parameters on human postural responses
Diener, H. C., Horak, F. B., & Nashner, L. M. (1988) · Journal of Neurophysiology · doi:10.1152/jn.1988.59.6.1888 · Cited by 359
Tinetti, M. E. (1988) · JAMA · doi:10.1001/jama.1988.03720080024022 · Cited by 300
Metadata
- Authors
- Wolfson, L. I., Whipple, R., Amerman, P., & Kleinberg, A.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1986-12
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 845-850
- ISSN
- 0002-8614 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-5415
- OpenAlex
- W1523243215
- Cited by
- 247
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 36.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Stressing the Postural Response: A Quantitative Method for Testing Balance. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1986.tb07256.x
- The paper
- Wolfson, L. I., Whipple, R., Amerman, P., & Kleinberg, A. (1986). Stressing the Postural Response: A Quantitative Method for Testing Balance. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1986.tb07256.x
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
