The Live Long Walk Strong Rehabilitation Program Study: Design and Methods.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify attributes targeted by rehabilitative treatment within which improvements lead to short- and long-term changes in mobility. Maintaining independence in mobility is important to many older adults and is associated with critical outcomes such as aging in place, morbidity, and mortality.

Design

The Live Long Walk Strong rehabilitation study is a phase 2 single-blind, randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, outpatient physical therapy.

Participants

198 community-dwelling middle- and older-aged veterans (aged 50 years and older) will be recruited from primary care practices (N=198).

Interventions

Comparing a moderate-vigorous intensity physical therapy program of 10 sessions with a waitlist control

SUBMITTER: Harris R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9482036 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature