The most comprehensive systematic review on daily step counts and disease outcomes. Is the 10000 steps per day outdated? Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis - The Lancet Public Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We’re hiring a postdoctoral associate in Biomechanics @UNOmaha! Focus: gait training for stroke survivors. Lab and/or field studies, collaboration with experts at the universty and medical center. PhD in PT, biomechanics, biomed eng, or related. 👉 biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch...

Pleased to share the third publication from our PhD candidate Meichan Zhu's thesis: "Dynamic visual acuity in bilateral vestibulopathy and healthy age–sex-matched participants" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Co-activation can be functional, to stabilize, or pathological, e.g. after stroke, but both are captured in one EMG recording. In our recent paper (first-author Ellis van Can) we isolate functional co-activation through a leg-swinging task in healthy adults. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ga...

The program for the 11th Biennial Australia and New Zealand Falls Prevention Conference is now available. Check out the plethora of talks on program implementation, training, and policy and planning innovations in falls prevention in Australia, New Zealand and internationally. anzfpconference.com.au

We've grown more and more interested in the role of fatigue in shaping locomotor behavior. Our latest paper points to a functional consequence of the increased physiological demand placed on calf muscles when operating at shorter lengths—namely accelerated fatigue. peerj.com/articles/198...

Title: Exercise Physiologist
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ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

Honoured to join the AAHMS Mentorship Program as one of 17 new mentees. Excited to work with Academy Fellows, contribute to policy & help shape the future of health and medical research. aahms.org/news/17-emer... #AAHMS #Mentorship #Leadership

Validity of measures of reactive balance training intensity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.06.668970v1

If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...

Prioritizing skeletal muscle health for successful aging “The beneficial effects of exercise on skeletal muscle cannot be overstated, and the impact of healthy skeletal muscle on successful aging should not be underestimated.” www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/prio...

Preventing Falls in Older Australians: Applying the Updated National Guidelines in Practice recording now available. Hosted in partnership between the CRE in the Prevention of Fall Related Injuries, The ANZFPS and @injurymatters.bsky.social. youtu.be/84IWIwPqmfg?...

Position open for a neuroimaging focused postdoc to come work with us in Sydney Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :) usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Ever wondered how affective measures in MS relate to reactive balance? And whether a history of falls changes this relationship? ⁉️ Find out more below! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just over one month until #WorldPTDay – check out the toolkit in 16 languages and start making plans to mark the day Find out more: ow.ly/N9Nk50WyEXl#WorldPTDay Volunteer translators are working on other languages and these will be published ASAP

We know how to prevent falls in older Australians, and save lives. So, why aren’t we? Read what now needs to happen following the release of the revised national Falls Prevention Guidelines here: www.croakey.org/we-know-how-...

This October, the fifth Motor Impairment Conference will take place in Amsterdam. We have an excellent list of invited speakers on various domains of motor impairment and cordially invite you to join. Abstract submission deadline is August 8th. For details see: motorimpairment.org.

#ISPGR @kimvanschooten.bsky.social presents on real world mobility and falls

President @kim-delbaere.bsky.social #ISPGR2025 announces the next conference location and adjourns the meeting - see you all in two years in Kyoto!

Great keynote by Kathleen Cullen on neural circuits of postural control - exciting talk with lots of cool paradigms #ISPGR2025

Great keynote by Peter Shull on How to impact society through wearable research - lots of commercial/academic collaboration and real world impact!

Awesome work by Daina Sturnieks on the effect of anxiety and cognitive dual tasking on balance recovery - clear age effect, no effect of cognitive load, axiety does seem to delay recovery, partially driven by shorter step length #ISPGR2025

Great debate #ISPGR2025 on patient participation in research, results: 44% YES / 56% NO* but with a side note: *engagement should be meaningful. Well done @meghanambrens.bsky.social @moragtaylor.bsky.social and team :)

Excited for the Yes/No debate with @kim-delbaere.bsky.social @meghanambrens.bsky.social @moragtaylor.bsky.social, Bas Bloem, Will Young on public involvement in research #ISPGR2025

And up next Promising Scientist winner #ISPGR2025 @chrismccrum.bsky.social to talk about fall prevention through the lens of a sprints coach - we don’t expect athletes to win medals without practice, so why would we expect older people to recover from falls without it?

Prof Ole Kiehn delivering an amazing tour de force keynote about brainstem circuits controlling locomotion. #ISPGR2025

And finally Inbal Paran on gray matter volumes and proactive and reactive balance - important role for putamen and amygdala for both, with a large role for cerebellum in proactive stepping and prefrontal cortex in reactive stepping #ISPGR2025

And Steve Robinovitch on head injuries during falls - holding objects and successful reach to grasp reduced the risk for head impact or injury, bracing did not #ISPGR2025

Maaike van Gameren on the cost-effectiveness of In Balans - currently not cost effective but large promise for the future #ISPGR2025

We are currently seeking hospital staff to participate in interviews of their experience with time critical Parkinson's meds in hospital. Follow link below to find out more: mmu.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Antoine Langeard on environmental fall risk hazards - nice work with photo diaries highlighting mostly uneven flooring, poor maintenance and obstacles which did not seem to differ between old and young, but fallers & those with fear of falls seemed to perceive fewer and different hazards #ISPGR2015

And Jennifer Davis on life-space mobility and falls #ISPGR2025 - lower life-space was associated with more falls, emphasising the importance of adequate mobility to prevent falls

And stellar Yoshi Okubo on perturbation training to prevent falls - short term reductions and more effective for slips than for trips but still fairly large effect 50-%! on injuries from falls #ISPGR2025

Great talk by Rudhi Purohit on changes in beta frequencies during motor adaptation to slips #ISPGR2025

Honorary member @bjmcfadyen.bsky.social receiving his lifetime achievement award at #ISPGR2025. Thank you for your (continued :)) contribution, both to science and to the society @ispgr.bsky.social

Come join us today at #ISPGR2025 symposium 3 on AI for falls (1.30pm in 0.4) and meet Emma Strijbos @rug.nl at poster P01-C17 to talk about our work on pain and gait @kim-delbaere.bsky.social

#ispgr2025 day 2 kicks off with our second keynote, focusing on connectedness, from molecules to movement!#productive_interactions

And the first keynote of the conference #ISPGR2025 Bas Bloem with an engaging talk about motor problems in Parkinson’s disease

Followed by hosts @melvynroerdink.bsky.social and Caterina Rosano introducing the lovely city of Maastricht, and the #ISPGR2025 conference on “productive interactions”

And we’re off with #ISPGR2025 president @kim-delbaere.bsky.social opening a what promises to be exciting conference!

Fear of movement (kinesiophobia) and physical activity. A meta-analysis now in @ptjournal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/ptj/...

And another one: "The relationship between pain, quality of life and physical activity in older community-living Australians": physical activity mediates the relationship between pain and quality of life, negatively impacting overall well-being doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

New paper on "The Impact of Misaligned Perceived and Objective Fall Risk in Cognitively Impaired Older People": Nearly a third of cognitively impaired older adults misjudged their fall risk, leading to higher fall rates in certain groups doi.org/10.3233/jad-...