scholarly journals Reproducibility and validity of a new scale “Rhombus Test” to assess dynamic balance function among elderly women with care needs

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Akio Goda ◽  
Shin Murata ◽  
Hikari Isogai ◽  
Yumeko Uno ◽  
Mizuki Kageyama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Women ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Balance Function ◽  
Care Needs

scholarly journals Nurses and care delivery to elderly women: a social phenomenological approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 888-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastião Caldeira ◽  
Miriam Aparecida Barbosa Merighi ◽  
Luz Angelica Muñoz ◽  
Maria Cristina Pinto de Jesus ◽  
Selisvane Ribeiro da Fonseca Domingos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Action Strategies

OBJECTIVE: To understand how nurses see care delivery to elderly women. METHODS: In this phenomenological study, ten nurses working at Primary Health Care Units were interviewed between September 2010 and January 2011. RESULTS: In care delivery, nurses consider the elderly women's knowledge background and biographical situation, and also value the family's participation as a care mediator. These professionals have the acuity to capture these women's specific demands, but face difficulties to deliver care to these clients. Nurses expect to deliver qualified care to these women. CONCLUSION: The theoretical and methodological approach of social phenomenology permitted revealing that the nurse designs qualified care to elderly women, considering the possibilities in the context. This includes the participation of different social actors and health sectors, assuming collective efforts in action strategies and professional training, in line with the particularities and care needs of elderly women nurses identify.

scholarly journals Effect of Exercises in Water and Land on Balance and Cognitive Functions in Elderly and Old Persons

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Remigija Dekaminavičiūtė ◽  
Vilma Dudonienė
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Exercise Program ◽  
Static Balance ◽  
Trail Making Test ◽  
Exercise Programs ◽  
Balance Test ◽  
Trail Making ◽  
Better Than

Research background. Aging constantly manifests itself not only in physiological changes, but also in cognitive ones. Exercise programs for elderly have been created aiming at avoiding risk of falling, but there is little known about changes in cognitive functions under the effect of exercise. The aim was to evaluate the effect of water-based and land-based exercises on balance and cognitive functions in elderly women and men. Methods. The dynamic balance of study participants (n = 32) was evaluated using Timed Up & Go Test, the static balance was evaluated with a 4-position Static Balance Test and the cognitive functions were evaluated with Six-Item Cognitive Impairment Test, the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire and the Trail Making Test. The participants were randomly divided in two groups: water exercise and land-based exercise. Results. After 8 weeks of exercise in water and on land, static and dynamic balance and cognitive functions improved in both groups (p < 0.05), no statistically signifcant difference was found between the groups except for the trail making test, which was performed more quickly by subjects who attended exercise in water. After the exercise program, the men’s dynamic and static balance (while standing in the tandem position) were better than women’s, but women’s standing on one leg position was better than that of men’s (p < 0.05). Conclusion. There were no statistically signifcant differences in cognitive function between men and women after intervention. After both exercise programs, dynamic and static balance (in the tandem position) in men were better (p < 0.05) than those in women, standing on one leg but women’s position was statistically signifcantly better than that of men’s.Keywords: exercise program in water and land-based, static and dynamic balance, cognitive functions.

scholarly journals Avaliação da regulação sensorial do equilíbrio corporal e risco de queda de mulheres adultas e idosas fisicamente ativas

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 32683
Author(s):  
Marcelo De Maio Nascimento ◽  
Hugo Daniel Gomez De Castro ◽  
Mateus Alves Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Women ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Risk Of Falling ◽  
Balance Test ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Sensory Regulation

OBJECTIVE: To examine the sensory performance of static and dynamic balance regulation and the risk of falling in physically active adult and elderly women.METHOD: This is a non-probabilistic and intentional cross-sectional study. Thirty four women (51.90±15.84 years) enrolled in a gym attended. The population evaluated was stratified in age groups: 20-59 years (n=18) and 60 69 years (n=16). The gait was evaluated by the Time Up and Go (TUGs), Time Up and Go manual (TUGm), and Time Up and Go cognitive (TUGc), the balance by the Dynamic Gait Index (DGI) and Body Balance Test (TEC). RESULTS: Student’s t-test showed significant differences between age groups for comorbidities: hearing, vision, vertigo, labyrinthitis (p≤0.05). Comparatively, adult women showed better performance indices than older women in physical tests. According to the standards of the tests, there was no risk of falling for any group. However, regardless of age, a detailed examination of the TEC test showed a deficit in the sensory regulation of the visual, vestibular and somatosensory systems of the static and dynamic balance of fallers and non fallers (p≤0.05). The logistic regression analysis indicated the interoceptive regulation of the dynamic balance as a predictor of fall (p≤0.05). CONCLUSION: Deficits in the vestibular and somatosensory systems gradually potentiate the risk of falls in adult and elderly women, even if they remain physically active.

scholarly journals Validity and reliability of smartphone orientation measurement to quantify dynamic balance function

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 02NT01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikita A Kuznetsov ◽  
Rebecca K Robins ◽  
Benjamin Long ◽  
Jason T Jakiela ◽  
F Jay Haran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Balance Function ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Orientation Measurement

scholarly journals Severe Dizziness Related to Postural Instability, Changes in Gait and Cognitive Skills in Patients with Chronic Peripheral Vestibulopathy

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (01) ◽  
pp. e99-e106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almir Resende Coelho ◽  
Júlia Licursi Lambertti Perobelli ◽  
Lilian Shizuka Sonobe ◽  
Renato Moraes ◽  
Camila Giacomo de Carneiro Barros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Center Of Pressure ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Step Length ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Vestibular Disorders ◽  
Cognitive Assessments ◽  
Cognitive Balance ◽  
Peripheral Vestibulopathy

Abstract Introduction Peripheral vestibular disorders can lead to cognitive deficits and are more common in elderly patients. Objective To evaluate and correlate cognitive, balance and gait aspects in elderly women with chronic peripheral vestibular dizziness, and to compare them with elderly women without vestibular disorders. Methods Twenty-two women presenting peripheral vestibular dizziness episodes for at least six months participated in the study. The individuals were categorized by dizziness severity level: moderate (n = 11) or severe (n = 11). The control group (n = 11) included women showing no vestibulopathy, light-headedness or dizziness. Cognitive assessments and semi-static and dynamic balance assessments were performed with the Balance Master (Neurocom International, Inc., Clackamas, OR), while the Dizziness Handicap Inventory provided a score for the severity of the symptoms. The groups were submitted to statistics of inference and correlation between cognitive, balance and stability variables. Results The group with severe dizziness showed higher sway speed of the center of pressure in the anteroposterior direction, smaller step length, and slower gait than the control group. Regarding the cognitive variables, the group with severe dizziness symptoms presented significant correlations with stability and gait variables. Conclusion The relationship between cognitive aspects, balance and gait was stronger in women with severe dizziness than in those with no vestibulopathy.

scholarly journals Effect of Acupressure on Dynamic Balance in Elderly Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 433-445
Author(s):  
Seyedeh Ameneh Motalebi ◽  
Zeinab Zajkani ◽  
Fatemeh Mohammadi ◽  
Mohammad Habibi ◽  
Maryam Mafi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Randomized Controlled

Meeting the Health Care Needs of Elderly Métis Women in Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Brigette Krieg ◽  
Diane Martz
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Care Services

There is limited data, including health data, specific to the Métis population in Canada. As a result, the health issues and concerns of Métis communities—in particular Métis women—have largely been ignored in health research and in program and policy development. To address this dearth of information, a community-based research committee made up of Métis women initiated the Buffalo Narrows Métis Women’s Health Research Project. The goals of the project were to investigate the health care needs of elderly women and their caregivers in a northern and remote Saskatchewan Métis community. The project looked at barriers to health care service access in terms of accessibility, affordability, availability, acceptability and accommodation. Results showed that elderly Métis women experienced multiple, interconnected barriers to accessing health care services, making it difficult to isolate one variable as being more important than another. However, the Métis women interviewed did identify a number of recommendations to help in meeting the complex service needs of elderly women in the community. If implemented, these recommendations would help to ease the pressure put on extended family members who act as informal caregivers to elderly residents as well as giving elderly patients more independence and improving elderly women’s access to primary health care services.

Static and dynamic balance function in spasmodic torticollis

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Simonetta Moreau ◽  
Alexandra S�verac Cauquil ◽  
Marie Claude Costes Salon
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Spasmodic Torticollis ◽  
Balance Function

scholarly journals The Effect of Eight Weeks of Aerobic Exercise on Balance Function and Physiological Cost Index in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Sadeh ◽  
Reza Sharifatpour
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Aerobic Exercise ◽  
Aerobic Training ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Balance Function ◽  
Cost Index ◽  
Physiological Cost ◽  
Multiple Sclerosis Patients ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

Introduction:   Muscle weakness and balance problems are limiting factors in Multiple sclerosis patients that can be improved due to physical activity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 8 weeks of aerobic exercise on balance function and Physiological Cost Index in patients with MS in Yazd city in 1394. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted in two stages: pretest and post-test. The subjects were selected by targeted and available sampling and randomly divided into training and control groups that included 30 patients (15 in the experimental group and 15 in the control group). The subjects were randomly divided into two groups of experimental and control. Subjects in the experimental group participated in an aerobic exercise program for eight weeks, three days a week, each session of 60-90 minutes with an intensity of  50-70% of maximum heart rate. For statistical analysis we used descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, and the Shapiro-Wilk test used to measure the normality of the data, independent t-test and the covariance (ANCOVA). The significance level of the tests was p < 0.05 by using the SPSS-25 software. Results:   ANCOVA results revealed that the selected aerobic training significantly increased both static balance (p = 0.007) and dynamic balance (p = 0.001). Moreover, aerobic training positively influenced the physiological cost index (P = 0.001.  Conclusion: aerobic exercise can improve both static and dynamic balance and increase the Physiological Cost Index in M.S patients. Therefore, these exercises are recommended for patients with MS.

scholarly journals Effect of Eight Weeks of Core Stability Exercises on Dynamic Balance, Function, and Strength in Athletes after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Randomized Clinical Trial

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzaneh Saki ◽  
Mehrdad Anbariyan ◽  
Hossein Shafiei ◽  
Shima Bakhtiari
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction ◽  
Ligament Reconstruction ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Core Stability ◽  
Balance Function ◽  
Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction ◽  
Anterior Cruciate ◽  
Experimental Group

Introduction: The core muscles of trunk are activated before movements of upper and lower limbs. Current evidence suggests that lose of stability in core region predisposes to second injury and appropriate exercise may reduce the risk of reinjury. This aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of eight weeks core stability exercises on dynamic balance, function and strength in athletes after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Methods: This study was a randomized clinical trial. 26 athletes with a history of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction were purposefully selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group performed core stability exercises for eight weeks and the control group performed their daily exercises. Dynamic balance, isometric strength and function were meaured using Y balance test, hand held dynamometer and hop tests. Data were analyzed using SPSS vrsion16 software. Independent t-test was used to compare demographic characteristics and Mixed Repeated Measures ANOVA was used to compare the means of the two groups (p≤.05). Results: The results of the present study showed significant improvement in dynamic balance (F=143.92, P=0.000), single-leg hop (F=68.25, P=0.000), triple hop (F=14.02, P= 0.001), knee flexor strength (F=50.21, P=0.000) and knee extensor strength (F=54.72, P=0.000) in the experimental group after eight weeks of core stability exercises. Conclusion: Based on the results of present study, it is suggested to the specialists and trainers involed in the rehabilitation of athletes to use comprehensive and useful core stabilization exercises in the rehabilitation stages of knee injuries.

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