Falls are common and dangerous for survivors of stroke at all stages of recovery. The widespread need to assess fall risk in real\ntime for individuals after stroke has generated emerging requests for a reliable, inexpensive, quantifiable, and remote clinical\nmeasure/tool. In order to meet these requests, we explore the Functional Reach Test (FRT) for real-time fall risk assessment and\nimplement the FRT function in mStroke, a real-time and automaticmobile health systemfor poststroke recovery and rehabilitation.\nmStroke is designed, developed, and delivered as an Application (App) running on a hardware platform consisting of an iPad and\none or two wireless body motion sensors based on different mobile health functions. The FRT function in mStroke is extensively\ntested on healthy human subjects to verify its concept and feasibility. Preliminary performance will be presented to justify the\nfurther exploration of the FRT function in mStroke through clinical trials on individuals after stroke,whichmay guide its ubiquitous\nexploitation in the near future.
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