A qualitative review of balance and strength performance in healthy older adults: impact for testing and training
Abstract: A continuously greying society is confronted with specific age-related health problems (e.g., increased fall incidence/injury rate) that threaten both the quality of life of fall-prone individuals as well as the long-term sustainability of the public health care system due to high treatment costs of fall-related injuries (e.g., femoral neck fracture). Thus, intense research efforts are needed from interdisciplinary fields (e.g., geriatrics, neurology, and exercise science) to (a) elucidate neuromuscular fall-risk factors, (b) develop and apply adequate fall-risk assessment tools that can be administered in clinical practice, and (c) develop and design effective intervention programs that have the potential to counteract a large number of fall-risk factors by ultimately reducing the number of falls in the healthy elderly. This paper makes an effort to present the above-raised research topics in order to provide clinicians, therapists, and practitioners with the current state-of-the-art information
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
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ISSN: 2090-2212
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Veröffentlichung
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Freiburg
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Universität
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2023
- DOI
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10.1155/2012/708905
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2399746
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 1:52 PM CET
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Associated
- Granacher, Urs
- Mühlbauer, Thomas
- Gruber, Markus
- Universität
Time of origin
- 2023