Stories about Health, Science and Motion

Fall Risk & Prevention
SNFs & ALFs
OneStep Spotlight
OneStep's Fall Risk Assessment can be done from anywhere, and offers a comprehensive evaluation using a proprietary calculation that incorporates ongoing patient gait and mobility data, self-reported questionnaires, and patient history.
May 8, 2023

Fall risk assessments from anywhere with OneStep

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Gait & Motion Analysis
OneStep Spotlight
Gait is now called the 6th vital sign, and for good reason. There’s much to learn from the way a person walks and changes in gait can be an indication of an underlying condition impacting mobility. Monitoring gait in a patient’s natural environment offers a window into how they move during real-life circumstances over a period of time, providing important context that is lacking in traditional care models.
December 6, 2022

How Monitoring Gait Kept a Patient Safe

Digital Health
Gait & Motion Analysis
OneStep Spotlight
Population health is defined as "the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group." Observing trends to understand and improve the health status and functional outcomes of a specific community can be a daunting task – since one must have a way to capture and analyze data of larger populations as opposed to reviewing the results of a single patient. However, with the right technology, this data yields remarkable insight and can help drive significant clinical outcomes at both an individual patient and larger population level.
October 18, 2022

Leveraging Population Data in Your Clinical Practice

Fall Risk & Prevention
Patient Education
According to the National Council on Aging, approximately 60-75% of all falls in the older adult population occur within or near the home. Implementing fall prevention strategies at home can be a simple way to reduce the risk for falls – for yourself or your loved ones. In this article, we offer physical therapist-approved tips to help prevent falls at home.
September 8, 2022

Fall Prevention: Safety at Home

Gait & Motion Analysis
Fall Risk & Prevention
When it comes to fall prevention, identifying trends in gait that have shown a correlation with increased risk of falls is a necessity. A complete fall risk assessment must incorporate precise and ongoing gait analysis to identify changes in gait parameters and functional mobility so that providers can assess more accurately and intervene proactively.
September 6, 2022

Can you assess fall risk without gait analysis?

Fall Risk & Prevention
Patient Education
Most everyone has experienced a fall at some point in their life, but some falls have devastating consequences. In this article, we equip you with the knowledge necessary to implement proactive fall prevention strategies in your own life or the lives of the ones you love.
September 2, 2022

Fall Prevention Awareness 101

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We often hear the term 'core' thrown around, but what does it actually mean? The core refers to a specific group of muscles that function like a cylinder to stabilize your body.
May 4, 2022

Core 101

Patient Education
Neurological
Pusher syndrome is a syndrome where a post-stroke individual pushes away from the non-weak side. Physical therapists can retrain the brain through visual feedback and motor control/motor learning techniques to correct their misperception of being upright when they are tilted to help the patient regain function.
November 8, 2021

What is Pusher Syndrome?