Impact of exercise to improve gait efficiency on activity and participation in older adults with mobility limitations: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Definitive evidence that exercise interventions that improve gait also reduce disability is lacking. A task-oriented, motor sequence learning exercise intervention has been shown to reduce the energy cost of walking and improve gait speed, but whether the intervention also improves activity and participation has not been demonstrated.

Objective

The objective of this study was to compare the impact of a task-oriented, motor sequence learning exercise (TO) intervention and the impact of an impairment-oriented, multicomponent exercise (IO) intervention on activity and participation outcomes in older adults with mobility limitations. The mediating effects of a change in the energy cost of walking on changes in activity and participation also were determined.

Design

SUBMITTER: VanSwearingen JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3229041 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature