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The Efficacy Of A Work-Station Intervention Program To Improve Functional Ability And Flexibility In Ageing Clients With Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Study, Nancy Low Choy, Rosemary Isles, Ruth Barker, Jennifer Nitz
The Efficacy Of A Work-Station Intervention Program To Improve Functional Ability And Flexibility In Ageing Clients With Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Study, Nancy Low Choy, Rosemary Isles, Ruth Barker, Jennifer Nitz
Nancy Low Choy
Purpose:
Health care workers associated with the long-term care of ageing clients with Cerebral Palsy have reported on the adverse effects of less active daily activity programmes with resultant decreased functional mobility. While the negative effects of ageing have been reported in these clients, programmes have not been implemented to determine whether these adverse changes can be reversed or prevented. The efficacy of a work-station intervention programme to improve functional ability and flexibility in ageing clients with cerebral palsy was investigated.
Method:
A clinical intervention study using repeated measures (pre/post-intervention and at follow-up) to evaluate efficacy was undertaken. Twenty-two clients …
Medial-Lateral Postural Stability And Balance In Community Dwelling Women Over 40 Years Of Age, Jennifer Nitz, Nancy Low Choy, Rosemary Isles
Medial-Lateral Postural Stability And Balance In Community Dwelling Women Over 40 Years Of Age, Jennifer Nitz, Nancy Low Choy, Rosemary Isles
Nancy Low Choy
Objective:
To document the change in medial–lateral balance in women aged between 40 and 80 years.
Design:
A cross-sectional study of six measures of medial–lateral balance was undertaken.
Setting:
The Betty Byrne Henderson Centre for Women and Ageing, Royal Women's Hospital, Australia.
Subjects:
Five hundred and three community-dwelling women between 40 and 80 years of age were randomly recruited from a large metropolitan region with 366 subjects admitted after applying exclusion criteria.
Measurements:
The clinical measurements included the lateral reach and step tests while laboratory measurements were gathered from the Balance Master software programs for unilateral stance and limits of …
Changes In Postural Stability In Women Aged 20 To 80 Years, Nancy Low Choy, Sandra Brauer, Jennifer Nitz
Changes In Postural Stability In Women Aged 20 To 80 Years, Nancy Low Choy, Sandra Brauer, Jennifer Nitz
Nancy Low Choy
Background.
A study of postural stability was undertaken to identify the relationship between vision and support surface across age decades. Understanding when reliance on vision for postural stability emerges and the support conditions contributing to this instability may provide the evidence required to introduce falls-prevention strategies in younger age decades.
Methods.
We measured postural stability in 453 women aged 20 to 80 years using the Balance Master force-plate system while the women performed the modified Clinical Test for the Sensory Interaction and Balance (firm and foam surfaces, eyes open and closed) and the Single-Limb Stance Test (eyes open and closed). …