Two recent studies conducted by University of Missouri researchers found that participation in dance-based therapy can improve balance and gait in older adults. Improved functionality among seniors can decrease their risk of falling and reduce costly injuries. The researchers used a dance-therapy program called The Lebed Method (TLM), which includes...
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Learn to Fall More Safely (Does that make any sense at all?!)
From Mcknights – Researchers say seniors with osteoporosis can use martial arts training to learn to fall more safely. Testing the force of impact of a variety of different martial arts fall exercises, research subjects performed sideways and forward martial arts falls, which involve turning the fall into a rolling...
Vitamin D Helps Reduce Falls
Researchers with The Cochrane Library reviewed five studies of vitamin D use in nursing homes. Four of those studies looked at fall rates among nursing home patients who take vitamin D. Residents were 28% less likely to experience a fall when given daily doses of vitamin D, and the benefit...
Causes You Adopt Can Come Back to Help You!
If I told an orthopedist he/she should adopt the cause of fall prevention, they might twitch, raise an eyebrow and say I am crazy. Likewise the nursing home administrator who can count many a hip and knee replacement patient as their resident might look at me funny. But the cause...
Falls Associated with Certain Drugs
In a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine falls among elderly people are significantly associated with several classes of drugs, including sedatives often prescribed as sleep aids and medications used to treat mood disorders. Antidepressants showed the strongest statistical association with falling. Anti-psychotics often used to treat schizophrenia...