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OHSU invention puts unsteady walkers
Researchers test a small audio device that uses tones to help seniors and others with balance problems stay safely upright
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
AYESHA McADAMS-MAHMOUD
Fred Kawabata sometimes falls. In the middle of the night, it's difficult for him to travel from his bed across the soft carpet to the bathroom, with his balance permanently altered seven years ago by a rare virus that attacked his inner ear.
'There are times when I reach down for something . . . I lose my balance and fall on the floor,' he says.
The condition led Kawabata, 66, a retired electronics engineer who enjoys hiking, to the Balance Disorders Lab at Oregon Health & Science University, where a young Italian engineer has been testing a portable audio device intended to help people with balance disorders."
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