Old women with a recent fall history show improved muscle strength and function sustained for six months after finishing training

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 300-309

  Beyer, Nina ^a   Simonsen, Lene ^a   Bülow, Jens ^a   Lorenzen, Tove ^a   Jensen, Dorte V ^a   Larsen, Lone ^a   Rasmussen, Ulla ^a   Rennie, Michael ^b   Kjaer, Michael ^a  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accidental falls; Exercise; Female; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; EXERCISE; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOME; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MENTAL HEALTH; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 34848884212     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324706     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Fried LP, Guralnik JM. Disability in older adults: evidence regarding significance, etiology, and risk. J Am Geriatr Soc 1997; 45: 92-100.
2. Fiatarone MA, O'Neill EF, Ryan ND, et al. Exercise training and nutritional supplementation for physical frailty in very elderly people. N Engl J Med 1994; 330: 1769-75.
3. Hughes MA, Myers BS, Schenkman ML. The role of strength in rising from a chair in the functionally impaired elderly. J Biomech 1996; 29: 1509-13.
4. Rantanen T, Avlund K, Suominen H, Schroll M, Frandin K, Perth E. Muscle strength as a predictor of onset of ADL dependence in people aged 75 years. Aging Clin Exp Res 2002; 14 (3 Suppl): 10-5.
5. Rantanen T, Guralnik JM, Ferrucci L, et al. Coimpairments as predictors of severe walking disability in older women. J Am Geriatr Soc 2001; 49: 21-7.
6. Guralnik JM, Ferrucci L, Pieper CF, et al. Lower extremity function and subsequent disability: consistency across studies, predictive models, and value of gait speed alone compared with the short physical performance battery. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2000; 55: M221-31.
7. Onder G, Penninx BW, Ferrucci L, Fried LP, Guralnik JM, Pahor M. Measures of physical performance and risk for progressive and catastrophic disability: results from the Women's Health and Aging Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2005; 60: 74-9.
8. Hirvensalo M, Rantanen T, Heikkinen E. Mobility difficulties and physical activity as predictors of mortality and loss of independence in the community-living older population. J Am Geriatr Soc 2000; 48: 493-8.
9. Dunn JE, Rudberg MA, Furner SE, Cassel CK. Mortality, disability, and falls in older persons: the role of underlying disease and disability. Am J Public Health 1992; 82: 395-400.
10. Arfken CL, Lach HW, Birge SJ, Miller JP. The prevalence and correlates of fear of falling in elderly persons living in the community. Am J Public Health 1994; 84: 565-70.
11. Tineth ME, Mendes de Leon CF, Doucette JT, Baker DI. Fear of falling and fall-related efficacy in relationship to functioning among community-living elders. J Gerontol 1994; 49: M140-47.
12. Bruce DG, Devine A, Prince RL. Recreational physical activity levels in healthy older women: the importance of fear of falling. J Am Geriatr Soc 2002; 50: 84-9.
13. Gill TM, Allore H, Guo Z. Restricted activity and functional decline among community-living older persons. Arch Intern Med 2003; 163: 1317-22.
14. Close J, Ellis M, Hooper R, Glucksman E, Jackson S, Swift C. Prevention of falls in the elderly trial (PROFET): a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 1999; 353: 93-7.
15. Gill TM, Baker DI, Gottschalk M, Peduzzi PN, Allore H, Byers A. A program to prevent functional decline in physically frail, elderly persons who live at home. N Engl J Med 2002; 347: 1068-74.
16. Gillespie LD, Gillespie WJ, Robertson MC, Lamb SE, Cumming RG, Rowe BH. Interventions for preventing falls in elderly people. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2003; 4: CD000340.
17. Kongsgaard M, Backer V, Jorgensen K, Kjaer M, Beyer N. Heavy resistance training increases muscle size, strength and physical function in elderly male COPD-patients - a pilot study. Respiratory Medicine 2004; 98: 1000-7.
18. Ettinger WHJ, Bums R, Messier SP, et al. A randomized trial comparing aerobic exercise and resistance exercise with a health education program in older adults with knee osteoarthntis. The Fitness Arthritis and Seniors Trial (FAST). JAMA 1997; 277: 25-31.
19. Skelton DA, Young A, Greig CA, Malbut KE. Effects of resistance training on strength, power, and selected functional abilities of women aged 75 and older. J Am Geriatr Soc 1995; 43: 1081-7.
20. Ferrucci L, Guralnik JM, Buchner D, et al. Departures from linearity in the relationship between measures of muscular strength and physical performance of the lower extremities: the Women's Health and Aging Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 1997; 52: M275-85.
21. Barnett A, Smith B, Lord SR, Williams M, Baumand A. Community-based group exercise improves balance and reduces falls in at-risk older people: a randomised controlled trial. Age Ageing 2003; 32: 407-14.
22. American College of Sports Medicine. Physical activity programs and behavior counseling in older adult populations. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2004; 36: 1997-2003.
23. Jensen BR, Jorgensen K, Hargens AR, Nielsen PK, Nicolaisen T. Physiological response to submaximal isometric contractions of the paravertebral muscles. Spine 1999; 24: 2332-8.
24. Berg KO, Wood-Dauphinee SL, Williams JI, Maki B. Measuring balance in the elderly: validation of an instrument. Can J Public Health 1992; 83 (Suppl 2): S7-11.
25. Powell LE, Myers AM. The Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 1995; 50A: M28-34.
26. Schnohr P, Scharling H, Jensen JS. Changes in leisure-time physical activity and risk of death: an observational study of 7,000 men and women. Am J Epidemiol 2003; 158: 639-44.
27. Skelton DA, Greig CA, Davies JM, Young A. Strength, power and related functional ability of healthy people aged 65-89 years. Age Ageing 1994; 23: 371-7.
28. Buchner DM, Hombrook MC, Kutner NG, et al. Development of the common data base for the FICSIT trials. J Am Geriatr Soc 1993; 41: 297-308.
29. Jensen CV. A computer program for randomizing patients with near-even distribution of important parameters. Comput Biomed Res 1991; 24: 429-34.
30. Fielding RA, LeBrasseur NK, Cuoco A, Bean J, Mizer K, Fiatarone Singh MA. High-velocity resistance training increases skeletal muscle peak power in older women. J Am Geriatr Soc 2002; 50: 655-62.
31. Bath PA, Morgan K. Differential risk factor profiles for indoor and outdoor fails in older people living at home in Nottingham, UK. Eur J Epidemiol 1999; 15: 65-73.
32. Rantanen T, Era P, Heikkinen E. Maximal isometric strength and mobility among 75-year-old men and women. Age Ageing 1994; 23: 132-7.
33. Beimbom DS, Morrissey MC. A review of the literature related to tnink muscle performance. Spine 1988; 13: 655-60.
34. Rantanen T, Guralnik JM, Izmirlian G, et al. Association of muscle strength with maximum walking speed in disabled older women. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 1998; 77: 299-305.
35. Schroll M, Avlund K, Davidsen M. Predictors of five-year functional ability in a longitudinal survey of men and women aged 75 to 80. The 1914-population in Glostrup, Denmark. Aging (Milano) 1997; 9: 143-52.
36. Giles B, Henke P, Edmonds J, McNeil D. Reproducibility of isokinetic muscle strength measurements in nomial and arthritic individuals. Scand J Rehabil Med 1990; 22: 93-9.
37. Liddle J, Gilleard C. The emotional consequences of falls for older people and their families. Clin Rehabil 1995; 9: 110-4.
38. Rantanen T, Era P, Heikkinen E. Physical activity and the changes in maximal isometric strength in men and women from the age of 75 to 80 years. J Am Geriatr Soc 1997; 45: 1439-45.
39. Guideline for the prevention of falls in older persons, American Geriatrics Society, British Geriatrics Society, and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Panel on Falls Prevention. J Am Geriatr Soc 2001; 49: 664-72.
40. Luukinen H, Koski K, Hiltunen L, Kivela SL. incidence rate of falls in an aged population in northern Finland. J Clin Epidemiol 1994; 47: 843-50.