Effectiveness of a targeted exercise intervention in reversing older people's mild balance dysfunction: A randomized controlled trial

Physical Therapy

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-37

  Yang, Xiao Jing ^a   Hill, Keith ^b   Moore, Kirsten ^c   Williams, Susan ^c   Dowson, Leslie ^c   Borschmann, Karen ^c   Simpson, Julie Anne ^a   Dharmage, Shyamali C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL AGEING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; POSTURAL BALANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855243671     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20100289     Document Type: Article

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