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Mobility Test Protocols for the Elderly: A Methodological Note

Consequences of falls are a major health problem in elderly. Poor balance is the precursor of falls and balance impairment has been evidenced after an injury. On the other hand, balance and stability can be improved with training. At the beginning of the project Mobility in Aging one of the question...

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Autores principales: Sarabon, Nejc, Löfler, Stefan, Hosszu, Gabriella, Hofer, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26913165
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ejtm.2015.5385
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description Consequences of falls are a major health problem in elderly. Poor balance is the precursor of falls and balance impairment has been evidenced after an injury. On the other hand, balance and stability can be improved with training. At the beginning of the project Mobility in Aging one of the questions was how to measure dynamic and static balance in order to get reliable and sensitive parameters to follow the effect of decay in movement functions in elderly or to track the improvement after training. In this short report we will give a couple of answers to a long standing debate. There is indeed evidence in literature that stability and balance is very important. Elderly people often shift from the so called ankle strategy to the hip strategy for balancing. The reflex reactions are the more to decay and we observed more co-contractions. Also, inactivity causes slower muscles contractions. Our goal should be a combination of trainings, where we can see changes at neuromuscular, structural and molecular levels, but we would like to say that our training protocols did not touch all the aspects of movement function we aimed to observe. Future projects will hopefully provide the missing information.
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spelling pubmed-47489822016-02-24 Mobility Test Protocols for the Elderly: A Methodological Note Sarabon, Nejc Löfler, Stefan Hosszu, Gabriella Hofer, Christian Eur J Transl Myol Review Consequences of falls are a major health problem in elderly. Poor balance is the precursor of falls and balance impairment has been evidenced after an injury. On the other hand, balance and stability can be improved with training. At the beginning of the project Mobility in Aging one of the questions was how to measure dynamic and static balance in order to get reliable and sensitive parameters to follow the effect of decay in movement functions in elderly or to track the improvement after training. In this short report we will give a couple of answers to a long standing debate. There is indeed evidence in literature that stability and balance is very important. Elderly people often shift from the so called ankle strategy to the hip strategy for balancing. The reflex reactions are the more to decay and we observed more co-contractions. Also, inactivity causes slower muscles contractions. Our goal should be a combination of trainings, where we can see changes at neuromuscular, structural and molecular levels, but we would like to say that our training protocols did not touch all the aspects of movement function we aimed to observe. Future projects will hopefully provide the missing information. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2015-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4748982/ /pubmed/26913165 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ejtm.2015.5385 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (by-nc 3.0) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Mobility Test Protocols for the Elderly: A Methodological Note
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26913165
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ejtm.2015.5385
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