a multifactorial approach tofall preventionhas been advocated. This approach includes an assessment of the patient by an occupational or physical therapist with
Due to the low use of conventional physical therapy, fall prevention interventions through the game demonstrated their effectiveness. Unfortunately, the most existing exergames, used for fall prevention, were not designed specifically for the elderly....
Reduced falls and fall risks have been observed among older adults referred to the HOP-UP-PT (Home-based Older Persons Upstreaming Prevention-Physical Therapy) program. The purpose of this study was to describe outcomes of HOP-UP-PT program participants and then to compare these outcomes to non...
recover from back pain within three to six days of their injury, the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that $31 million will be spent on physician office visits and $20 billion on prescription drugs—and only three percent of that total cost will go to prevention of back ...
COT: Occupational therapy in the prevention and management of falls in adults Practice guideline. In. London: College of Occupational Therapists; 2015. Tian Y, Thompson J, Buck D, Sonola L: Exploring the system-wide costs of falls in older people in Torbay. In. Edited by fund TK. London...
The aim of this work is to design a fall prevention program for people with Parkinson麓s Disease from an Occupational Therapy point of view.Theoretical underpinning:The study is within the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). It is focusses...
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Therefore, in cases of limited time or budget, the Ai-Chi method is recommended as a more economic intervention for fall prevention. The second goal of the present study was to assess whether API, OLPI or NPI induced differential effects on verbal and visuospatial WM in older adults. The ...
thereby achieving higher recognition performance. Therefore, future work will focus on recognizing continuous behavioral actions to enhance the general applicability of fall prevention systems and reduce misrecognition rates. Additionally, we will strive to improve the system’s ability to recognize human ...
This study aimed to determine how fall prevention self-efficacy and degree of deviation in self-cognition of physical performance, which have recently received attention for their potential to explain falls in combination with a wide variety of fall-related factors, as well as affect falls. Older ...