[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of elastic-band resistance exercise on balance, gait function, flexibility and fall efficacy in the elderly people of rural community. [Subjects and Methods] It is selected by 45 outpatients. They have come into the clinic continually to treat of physical therapy at least 1-2 times for a week. A group treated with both general physi...

BACKGROUND Risk for falls in older adults has been associated with falls efficacy (self-perceived confidence in performing daily physical activities) and postural balance, but available evidence is limited and mixed. We examined the interaction between falls efficacy and postural balance and its association with future falls. We also investigated the association between falls efficacy and gait ...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated psychometric properties of the Iconographical Falls Efficacy Scale (Icon-FES) to measure fear of falling in cognitively impaired older people. Icon-FES uses pictures as visual cues to prompt responses. METHODS A total of 50 community-dwelling older people with moderate cognitive impairment were assessed on Icon-FES, Falls Efficacy Scale-International, and vario...

Fear of falling in elderly is a major cause of loss of independence, which has an effect on the physical function in them. The focus of the study is to find whether a relationship exist among fear of falling, balance impairment and functional mobility in the community dwelling elderly people. The sample consisted of 52 community dwelling elderly people of age between 65 years to 90 years (mean ...

Sir—Several risk factors associated with falls in hospitalised patients have been identified [1, 2]. Although a substantial number of assessment instruments for identifying hospitalised patients at risk of falling exists [3], their generalisability is limited [4] because only a few [2, 5] have been tested in settings other than those in which they were originally developed. The Morse Fall Scale...

OBJECTIVES assess the risk of falls in adult hospitalized patients and verify the incidence of the event in this environment. METHOD cohort study, with approval by the Research Ethics Committee, which monitored 831 patients hospitalized at a university hospital. The Morse Fall Scale (MFS) was used to assess the risk and patients with high risk (≥45 points) were considered exposed to falls. ...

The rapid increase of the elderly population and chronic diseases have augmented disability in today's world. This situation has led researchers engineers to create tools technologies that allow health caregivers, physical trainers, policymakers understand, measure, treat people with disabilities. Nowadays, artificial intelligence techniques been applied improve performance these technologies. ...

objectives to explore the effect of a selective 10-week corrective exercise with an emphasis on gait training activities (gta) on the number of falls (nofs), fear of falling, functional balance, timed up and go (tug) test among pd patients. background posture instability and unsteady gait disorders in parkinson’s disease (pd) usually contribute to fall-related fractures. fall-related trauma in ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the impact of fear of falling on the health of older people. METHODS A total of 528 subjects (mean age 77 years) were recruited from two hospitals in Sydney, Australia, and followed for approximately 12 months. Eighty-five subjects died during follow-up, and 31 were admitted to an aged care institution. Tinetti's Falls Efficacy Scale (FES) was su...