A water-based training program that include perturbation exercises to improve stepping responses in older adults: Study protocol for a randomized controlled cross-over trial

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Melzer, Itshak ^a   Elbar, Ori ^a,b   Tsedek, Irit ^a,b   Oddsson, Lars I E ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Hydrotherapy Center in Shaa'r Ha Negev   (Israel)

^c Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; GAIT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENESCENCE; TRAINING; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ENDURANCE; FALLING; FEMALE; FITNESS; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; IMMERSION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IMMERSION; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51349101674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-8-19     Document Type: Article

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