White paper: "walking speed: the sixth vital sign".

The sixth vital sign in diabetes.

The vital signs are an integral part of clinical methods. In diabetes, determination of plasma glucose can be taken as the fifth vital sign. The sixth vital sign is well being, which can easily be measured by two item questionnaires designed to assess distress, depression and coping skills. This sign is essential for the screening and follow up of persons living with diabetes, as it provides an...

A New Simulation Model for Respiration Signal Measurements from Walking Human

There has been research interest in using the micro Doppler effect for contactless measurements of human respiration. Most of the research assumes that the test subject remains stationary. The purpose of this paper is to detect a respiration signal from a walking human. This work is at an early stage, and MATLAB model for a walking human with respiration movement was used, instead of recreating...

Expectations for walking speeds: standards for students in elementary schools.

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine children's walking speeds in elementary school hallways. A second aim was to determine the slowest but "good enough" walking speed if a teacher had to slow down her class's line to accommodate a student with a mobility limitation. METHODS The walking speeds of 370 children serving as class-line leaders were determined after measuring using a stop...

Motor Learning in the Community-dwelling Elderly during Nordic Backward Walking

UNLABELLED [PURPOSE] THE AIMS OF THIS STUDY WERE 1) to confirm the motion learning process of Nordic backward walking (NBW) in older adult community-dwelling volunteers and, 2) to check the change in psychological condition resulting from NBW. This study examined whether the learning process and psychological condition become more efficient after repeated sessions of NBW. [Methods] The subjec...

The NCCN guideline for distress management: a case for making distress the sixth vital sign.