Effect of Timing and Coordination Training on Mobility and Physical Activity Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Standard exercise interventions targeting underlying physiologic system impairments have limited success in improving walking. Augmenting standard interventions with timing and coordination training, which incorporates the principles of motor learning and integrates multiple systems, may be more successful.

Objective

To determine whether a standard strength and endurance program incorporating timing and coordination training (standard-plus) improves gait speed more than strength and endurance training alone.

Design, setting, and participants

The Program to Improve Mobility in Aging (PRIMA) study was an assessor-blinded, randomized, 2-group intervention trial that included a 12-week intervention and 24-week follow-up period. The trial was conducted at a univ

SUBMITTER: Brach JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127558 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature