Perturbation-based balance training for falls reduction among older adults: Current evidence and implications for clinical practice.

ABSTRACT: Falls are a leading cause of injury, hospitalization and even death among older adults. Although various strength and balance exercise interventions have shown moderate reductions in falls incidence among healthy older adults, no significant falls incidence improvements have been consistently seen in frail older adults or in patient groups with an increased falls risk (e.g. people with Parkinson's disease and stroke). This might be due to a lack of task specificity of previous exercise interventions to the recovery actions required to prevent a fall. Perturbation-based balance training (PBT) is an emerging task-specific intervention that aims to improve reactive balance control after destabilizing perturbations in a safe and controlled environment. Although early studies were carried out p

SUBMITTER: Gerards MHG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5763315 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature