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Task-Specific Resistance Training Bedside For An 80-Year-Old Deconditioned Female: A Case Report, Maura Ryan
Task-Specific Resistance Training Bedside For An 80-Year-Old Deconditioned Female: A Case Report, Maura Ryan
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Background: The purpose of this case report was to describe the use of task-specific resistance training bedside on an 80-year-old deconditioned female.
Case Description: The patient was a retired 80-year-old African-American female seen in a skilled nursing facility who was hospitalized due to defibrillator firing with atrial fibrillation with abdominal pain and Clostridium Difficile. Three weeks prior the patient was hospitalized for a right inguinal hernia repair.
Outcomes: The patient was unable to return to her prior level of independence for all functional mobility, yet the patient increased her gait distance, improved her lower extremity strength evidenced by manual muscle …