A Qualitative Review of Balance and Strength Performance in Healthy Older Adults: Impact for Testing and Training
A continuously greying society is confronted with specific age-related health problems (e.g., increased fall incidence/injury rate) that threaten both the quality of life of fall-prone individuals as well as the long-term sustainability of the public health care system due to high treatment costs of...
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| description | A continuously greying society is confronted with specific age-related health problems (e.g., increased fall incidence/injury rate) that threaten both the quality of life of fall-prone individuals as well as the long-term sustainability of the public health care system due to high treatment costs of fall-related injuries (e.g., femoral neck fracture). Thus, intense research efforts are needed from interdisciplinary fields (e.g., geriatrics, neurology, and exercise science) to (a) elucidate neuromuscular fall-risk factors, (b) develop and apply adequate fall-risk assessment tools that can be administered in clinical practice, and (c) develop and design effective intervention programs that have the potential to counteract a large number of fall-risk factors by ultimately reducing the number of falls in the healthy elderly. This paper makes an effort to present the above-raised research topics in order to provide clinicians, therapists, and practitioners with the current state-of-the-art information. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4ef7d10fc2e84f049271cd9c38d2f1f62025-02-03T06:06:25ZengWileyJournal of Aging Research2090-22042090-22122012-01-01201210.1155/2012/708905708905A Qualitative Review of Balance and Strength Performance in Healthy Older Adults: Impact for Testing and TrainingUrs Granacher0Thomas Muehlbauer1Markus Gruber2Institute of Sport Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Seidelstraβe 20, 07749 Jena, GermanyInstitute of Sport Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Seidelstraβe 20, 07749 Jena, GermanyDepartment of Sports Science, University of Konstanz, 78434 Konstanz, GermanyA continuously greying society is confronted with specific age-related health problems (e.g., increased fall incidence/injury rate) that threaten both the quality of life of fall-prone individuals as well as the long-term sustainability of the public health care system due to high treatment costs of fall-related injuries (e.g., femoral neck fracture). Thus, intense research efforts are needed from interdisciplinary fields (e.g., geriatrics, neurology, and exercise science) to (a) elucidate neuromuscular fall-risk factors, (b) develop and apply adequate fall-risk assessment tools that can be administered in clinical practice, and (c) develop and design effective intervention programs that have the potential to counteract a large number of fall-risk factors by ultimately reducing the number of falls in the healthy elderly. This paper makes an effort to present the above-raised research topics in order to provide clinicians, therapists, and practitioners with the current state-of-the-art information.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/708905 |
| spellingShingle | Urs Granacher Thomas Muehlbauer Markus Gruber A Qualitative Review of Balance and Strength Performance in Healthy Older Adults: Impact for Testing and Training Journal of Aging Research |
| title | A Qualitative Review of Balance and Strength Performance in Healthy Older Adults: Impact for Testing and Training |
| title_full | A Qualitative Review of Balance and Strength Performance in Healthy Older Adults: Impact for Testing and Training |
| title_fullStr | A Qualitative Review of Balance and Strength Performance in Healthy Older Adults: Impact for Testing and Training |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Qualitative Review of Balance and Strength Performance in Healthy Older Adults: Impact for Testing and Training |
| title_short | A Qualitative Review of Balance and Strength Performance in Healthy Older Adults: Impact for Testing and Training |
| title_sort | qualitative review of balance and strength performance in healthy older adults impact for testing and training |
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