Table 1.
Categories used to determine fall and near fall conditions.
Fig 1.
The figure shows the participant flow through the study. Abbreviations: AFO: ankle-foot orthoses; FAC: Functional Ambulation Categories.
Table 2.
Subject characteristics at inclusion.
Table 3.
Total number of falls and near falls in week 1–8 and 9–52.
Table 4.
AFO-conditions, locations, activities and consequences related to falls and near falls in week 1–8 and 9–52.
Fig 2.
Functional Ambulation Categories (FAC) and Berg Balance Scale (BBS) scores related to falls and near falls in the early and delayed group.
The position of the circle represents the BBS- or FAC-score at the time of the incident. The colour of the circle represents whether the AFO was used at the time of the incident. The numbers around the circles represent the activities performed during the incident. The vertical grey lines represent study week 9 (before week 9 the delayed group had not use an AFO), the horizontal grey lines indicate FAC-scores of 3 and BBS-scores of 45.