Otago Home-Based Strength and Balance Retraining Improves Executive Functioning in Older Fallers: A Randomized Controlled Trial
September 15, 2008
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Volume 56, Issue 10, October 2008. Effective falls prevention exercise programs, such as the Otago Exercise Program (OEP), consist of resistance training and balance training exercises. The current thought is that these types of exercises reduce falls by improving physiology functions, although improved cognitive functions, specifically improved executive functioning, may be another mechanism by which these types of exercises reduce falls in older adults. However, this research question has been largely unaddressed, because few exercise trials of falls prevention have included measure of cognitive function. Furthermore, no previous study of the influence of exercise on cognition has specifically included older adults with a history of falls. Background … Read more
Category: Falls Prevention, Adding Quality to Later Life Years, Publication
A multifactorial intervention to reduce the risk of falling among elderly people living in the community.
September 29, 1994
N Engl J Med. 1994 Sep 29;331(13):821-7. Background Since falling is associated with serious morbidity among elderly people, we investigated whether the risk of falling could be reduced by modifying known risk factors. Methods We studied 301 men and women living in the community who were at least 70 years of age and who had at least one of the following risk factors for falling: postural hypotension; use of sedatives; use of at least four prescription medications; and impairment in arm or leg strength or range of motion, balance, ability to move safely from bed to chair or to the bathtub or toilet (transfer skills), or gait. These subjects were given … Read more
Category: Falls Prevention, Publication
Notice: Undefined variable: additional_loop in /home/fallsclinic/public_html/wp-content/themes/fpc/archive.php on line 59
Notice: Trying to get property 'max_num_pages' of non-object in /home/fallsclinic/public_html/wp-content/themes/fpc/archive.php on line 59