2013年9月25日 · NeuRA FallScreen® based on Professor Stephen Lord’s Physiological Profile Assessment (PPA). Professor Lord is a Senior Principal Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia in Sydney, Australia. He has more than 30 years experience researching fall risk assessments and fall prevention strategies, and over 300 research publications.

Prof Stephen Lord’s Physiological Profile Assessment (PPA) has been marketed through Neuroscience Research Australia (formerly the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute) as POWMRI FallScreen®.

The Physiological Profile Assessment (PPA) involves a series of simple tests of vision, peripheral sensation, muscle force, reaction time, and postural sway. The tests can be administered quickly, and all equipment needed is portable.

In studies conducted by researchers at NeuRA, sway path has been found to be the best measure of postural sway for predicting falls in older people and other clinical groups at risk of falls. PPA Sway Path automatically records and stores sway path as well as maximal anterior-posterior and lateral sway as measured by the PPA sway meter ...

In studies conducted by researchers at NeuRA, sway path has been found to be the best measure of postural sway for predicting falls in older people and other clinical groups at risk of falls. This app automatically records and stores sway path as well as maximal anterior-posterior and lateral sway as measured by the PPA sway meter developed by ...

PPA Sway Path, a clinical tool used to asses a patient’s postural sway. Trail Making Test, a clinical tool used to assess a patient’s visual attention and task switching abilities. Low Contrast Sensitivity Test, a clinical tool used to assess a patient’s visual contrast sensitivity.

The blog was established by the Motor Impairment Program team at NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia) during a five year NHMRC-funded grant. The Motor Impairment Program also established an International Motor Impairment Meeting – the next one will be online in November 2021, then after that in Amsterdam 2022.

Prof Stephen Lord's Physiological Profile Assessment (PPA) has been marketed through Neuroscience Research Australia (formerly the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute) as POWMRI FallScreen®.

The PPA is based on tests which assess sensorimotor abilities: balance (sway when standing on medium-density foam with eyes open), lower extremity muscle strength (knee extension), contrast sensitivity (Melbourne edge test (MET), peripheral sensation (proprioception) and single hand (i.e. finger-press) reaction time .

NeuRA’s ‘ Physiological Profiling Assessment’ (PPA) is widely recognised as the “ gold standard” diagnostic tool for quantifying the physiological capacity of the lower limb. As part of the Motor Impairment program, we now plan to adapt this ground-breaking physiological profiling approach to measure the performance of the upper limbs ...