Examining conscious motor processing and the effect of single-task, dual-task and analogy training on walking during rehabilitation by older adults at risk of falling in Hong Kong: Design and methodology of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Walking is a common activity among older adults. Fallers were discovered to have a higher propensity to conscious motor processing (reinvestment) than age-matched non-fallers, leading to movement disruption, possibly by constraining or interfering with automatic motor control mechanisms. However, gait rehabilitation programs by implicit motor learning methodologies may ameliorate reinvestment propensity while improving gait ability in older adults. One hundred and five older adults, with moderate to high risk of falling, will be recruited from different community centres in Hong Kong to investigate the effect of single-task, dual-task and analogy training (implicit motor learning methodologies) on walking during rehabilitation in the context of reinvestment propensity, balance, walking abi

SUBMITTER: Wong TWL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6584477 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature