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Toe Clearance Rehabilitative Slippers for Older Adults With Fall Risk: A Randomized Controlled Trial

INTRODUCTION: To evaluate fall-prevention rehabilitative slippers for use by self-caring, independent older adults. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This assessor-blinded, randomized, and controlled 1-year study included 59 self-caring, independent participants (49 women) who attended day services. The mean a...

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Autores principales: Satoh, Atsuko, Kudoh, Yukoh, Lee, Sangun, Saitoh, Masumi, Miura, Miwa, Ohnuma, Yuka, Fukushi, Naoki, Ono, Aya, Sasaki, Hidetada
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8293852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34350055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21514593211029102
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author Satoh, Atsuko
Kudoh, Yukoh
Lee, Sangun
Saitoh, Masumi
Miura, Miwa
Ohnuma, Yuka
Fukushi, Naoki
Ono, Aya
Sasaki, Hidetada
author_facet Satoh, Atsuko
Kudoh, Yukoh
Lee, Sangun
Saitoh, Masumi
Miura, Miwa
Ohnuma, Yuka
Fukushi, Naoki
Ono, Aya
Sasaki, Hidetada
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description INTRODUCTION: To evaluate fall-prevention rehabilitative slippers for use by self-caring, independent older adults. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This assessor-blinded, randomized, and controlled 1-year study included 59 self-caring, independent participants (49 women) who attended day services. The mean age of participants was 84.0 ± 5.3 years. Participants were randomly selected from 8 nursing homes. We tested slippers top-weighted with a lead bead (200, 300, or 400 g). Intervention group participants walked while wearing the slippers for 10-20 min, 1-3 days/week at the day service center. Fall risk was measured using the Berg Balance Scale and the Tinetti Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA) before and at 3-month intervals after the intervention/control phase. RESULTS: After 12 months, the intervention group demonstrated significant improvement. Berg Balance and POMA compared to the control group (p < .05 p < .01, respectively). Mobility scores improved significantly for both measurements in the intervention group before and after (p < .01), but the control group had significantly lower scores. DISCUSSION: Overall, falls decreased in the intervention group from 10 to 7, and control group falls increased from 9 to 16 (p = .02). No adverse events related to the intervention were reported. CONCLUSIONS: Rehabilitation training slippers may reduce falls in older adults.
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spelling pubmed-82938522021-08-03 Toe Clearance Rehabilitative Slippers for Older Adults With Fall Risk: A Randomized Controlled Trial Satoh, Atsuko Kudoh, Yukoh Lee, Sangun Saitoh, Masumi Miura, Miwa Ohnuma, Yuka Fukushi, Naoki Ono, Aya Sasaki, Hidetada Geriatr Orthop Surg Rehabil Research Report INTRODUCTION: To evaluate fall-prevention rehabilitative slippers for use by self-caring, independent older adults. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This assessor-blinded, randomized, and controlled 1-year study included 59 self-caring, independent participants (49 women) who attended day services. The mean age of participants was 84.0 ± 5.3 years. Participants were randomly selected from 8 nursing homes. We tested slippers top-weighted with a lead bead (200, 300, or 400 g). Intervention group participants walked while wearing the slippers for 10-20 min, 1-3 days/week at the day service center. Fall risk was measured using the Berg Balance Scale and the Tinetti Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA) before and at 3-month intervals after the intervention/control phase. RESULTS: After 12 months, the intervention group demonstrated significant improvement. Berg Balance and POMA compared to the control group (p < .05 p < .01, respectively). Mobility scores improved significantly for both measurements in the intervention group before and after (p < .01), but the control group had significantly lower scores. DISCUSSION: Overall, falls decreased in the intervention group from 10 to 7, and control group falls increased from 9 to 16 (p = .02). No adverse events related to the intervention were reported. CONCLUSIONS: Rehabilitation training slippers may reduce falls in older adults. SAGE Publications 2021-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8293852/ /pubmed/34350055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21514593211029102 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Research Report
Satoh, Atsuko
Kudoh, Yukoh
Lee, Sangun
Saitoh, Masumi
Miura, Miwa
Ohnuma, Yuka
Fukushi, Naoki
Ono, Aya
Sasaki, Hidetada
Toe Clearance Rehabilitative Slippers for Older Adults With Fall Risk: A Randomized Controlled Trial
title Toe Clearance Rehabilitative Slippers for Older Adults With Fall Risk: A Randomized Controlled Trial
title_full Toe Clearance Rehabilitative Slippers for Older Adults With Fall Risk: A Randomized Controlled Trial
title_fullStr Toe Clearance Rehabilitative Slippers for Older Adults With Fall Risk: A Randomized Controlled Trial
title_full_unstemmed Toe Clearance Rehabilitative Slippers for Older Adults With Fall Risk: A Randomized Controlled Trial
title_short Toe Clearance Rehabilitative Slippers for Older Adults With Fall Risk: A Randomized Controlled Trial
title_sort toe clearance rehabilitative slippers for older adults with fall risk: a randomized controlled trial
topic Research Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8293852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34350055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21514593211029102
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