tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Assessment of balance and risk for falls in a sample of community-dwelling adults aged 65 and older"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Assessment of balance and risk for falls in a sample of community-dwelling adults aged 65 and older. | Chiropractic Osteopathy BioMed Central Research Open Access Assessment of balance and risk for falls in a sample of community-dwelling adults aged 65 and older Cheryl Hawk 1 John K Hyland2 Ronald Rupert3 Makasha Colonvega4 and Stephanie Hall5 Address 1Vice President of Research and Scholarship Cleveland Chiropractic College Kansas City MO and Los Angeles CA 2Research Associate Research Institute Parker College of Chiropractic Dallas TX 3Director of Research Research Institute Parker College of Chiropractic Dallas TX 4Assistant Professor Research Institute Parker College of Chiropractic Dallas TX and 5Research Assistant Research Institute Parker College of Chiropractic Dallas TX Email Cheryl Hawk - cherylhawk@ John K Hyland - drjkhyland@ Ronald Rupert - rrupert@ Makasha Colonvega - mcolonvega@ Stephanie Hall - shall@ Corresponding author Published 27 January 2006 Received 30 August 2005 . -n . . . Accepted 27 January 2006 Chiropractic Osteopathy2006 14 3 doi 1746-1340-14-3 This article is available from http content 14 1 3 2006Hawk et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Falls are a major health concern for older adults and their impact is a significant public health problem. The chief modifiable risk factors for falls in community-dwellers are psychotropic drugs polypharmacy environmental hazards poor vision lower extremity impairments and balance impairments. This study focused on balance impairments. Its purpose was to assess the feasibility of recruiting older adults with possible balance problems for research conducted at a chiropractic research center and to explore the utility of several widely used .