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Retraining Balance Using Task-Focussed Work-Stations, Nancy Low Choy

Nancy Low Choy

Extract:

This chapter aims to:
Present a task-oriented approach to retraining balance and mobility using workstations as an effective mode of delivering tailored interventions to individual or small groups of residents or community-based elders who are: frail aged; elders who ambulate with supervision within residential care facilities; or elders who are independently ambulant in the community.

Provide an outline of workstations that illustrate varying levels of challenge but address the multiple aspects of balance and mobility that need to be considered while retraining balance and mobility in elders.

© Copyright Elsevier Limited, 2004

A Theoretical Framework For The Assessment And Treatment Of Balance And Mobility Deficits, Nancy Low Choy

Nancy Low Choy

Extract:

This chapter aims to:
Review the theoretical elements that contribute to balance and mobility as a basis for assessing balance and mobility in the elderly, and presenting a tailored but multidimensional approach to assessing and retraining balance and mobility deficits in the elderly.

Describe a process of assessing balance and mobility in the elderly that uses observational and problem-solving skills while analysing balance and mobility tasks, identifies and measures impairments, and monitors progress and outcomes for elders of varying functional motor ability.

© Copyright Elsevier Limited, 2004

Normal Values Of Balance Tests In Women Aged 20 - 80, Rosemary Isles, Nancy Low Choy, Marie Steers, Jennifer Nitz

Nancy Low Choy

Objectives:
To determine normal values for four commonly used clinical functional balance tests from community-dwelling women aged 20 to 80 and to identify any significant decline due to aging.

Design:
A cross-sectional study was undertaken to provide normative values for four clinical balance tests across 6 decade cohorts.

Setting:
The Betty Byrne-Henderson Center for Women and Aging, Royal Womens' Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.

Participants:
Four hundred fifty-six community-dwelling, independently ambulant women with no obvious neurological or musculoskeletal-related disability, aged 20 to 80, were randomly recruited from a large metropolitan region.

Measurements:
The clinical balance measures/tests were the Timed Up and Go …

Skills For The Job Of Living: Why You Need An Ot On Your Team, Laura Greiss Hess

Laura Greiss Hess

Speech And Occupational Therapy, Laura Greiss Hess, Kerrie Lemons Chitwood

Laura Greiss Hess

The Efficacy Of A Balance Strategy Training Circuit For Community Based Elders Who Have Had A Fall, Jennifer Nitz, Nancy Low Choy

Nancy Low Choy

Background:
Older people participate in exercise programmes to reduce the risk of falls but no study has investigated a specific balance strategy training intervention presented in a workstation format for small groups.

Objective:
To determine whether a specific balance strategy training programmeme delivered in a workstation format was superior to a community based exercise class programme for reducing falls.

Design:
A randomised controlled trial model.

Setting:
Neurological Disorders, Ageing and Balance Clinic, Department of Physiotherapy, The University of Queensland.

Subjects:
73 males and females over 60 years, living independently in the community and who had fallen in the previous year …