期刊
JOURNAL OF ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND KINESIOLOGY
卷 18, 期 2, 页码 197-204出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2007.06.009
关键词
aging; fall prevention; gait; injury prevention; stepping responses; task-specific training
资金
- NIA NIH HHS [1R01AG10557, R01AG16778] Funding Source: Medline
- NCIPC CDC HHS [R49CE000620] Funding Source: Medline
This paper reviews some of our experiences over nearly 15 years of trying to determine modifiable factors that contribute to the high incidence of fall by older adults. As part of our approach, we have subjected healthy young and older adults to very large postural disturbances during locomotion, in the form of trips and slips, to which rapid compensatory responses have been necessary to avoid falling. For both trips and slips, the ability to limit trunk motion has consistently discriminated older adults who fall from both younger adults and older adults who have been able to avoid falling. We have shown that the ability to limit trunk motion can be rapidly acquired, or learned, by older adults as a result of task-specific training. The learned motor skill has demonstrated short-term retention and has been shown to effectively decrease fall-risk due to trips. Collectively, we believe the works strongly suggests that the traditional exercise-based fall-prevention and whole-body, task-specific training can synergize to reduce falls and fall-related injury in older adults. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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