Weighted Stair Climbing in Mobility-Limited Older People: A Pilot Study
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Weighted stair climbing in mobility-limited older people: a pilot study.
OBJECTIVES To evaluate weighted stair climbing exercise (SCE) as a means of increasing lower extremity muscle power in mobility-limited older people. DESIGN Single-blinded, randomized controlled pilot study. SETTING Human physiology laboratory of a metropolitan university. PARTICIPANTS Forty-five community-dwelling people aged 65 and older who had baseline mobility limitations manifested ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0002-8614,1532-5415
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50160.x