[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to identify whether a 4-week multicomponent
exercise program could improve the level of physical fitness of community-dwelling elderly
women. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-two healthy community-dwelling elderly women were
randomly allocated to either an experimental or a control group. Experimental subjects
performed a multicomponent exercise program that consisted of balance, strengthening, and
stretching exercises for 4 weeks, whereas the control subjects did not perform any
specific exercise. The subjects’ level of physical fitness was assessed prior to and after
training using the Senior Fitness Test which assesses muscle strength, flexibility,
dynamic balance/agility, aerobic endurance, and body composition. [Results] Subjects in
the experimental group showed significant improvements in lower and upper body strength,
lower and upper body flexibility, dynamic balance/agility following training, but not in
aerobic endurance or body composition. Significant group differences were shown in lower
and upper body strength, lower body flexibility, and dynamic balance/agility. [Conclusion]
The results suggest that a multicomponent training program that consists of balance,
strengthening, and stretching exercises is a relevant intervention for the improvement of
the level of physical fitness of community-dwelling elderly women.
[Purpose] This study aimed to determine whether a task-oriented training program improved
balance, activities of daily living (ADL) performance, and self-efficacy in stroke
patients. Twenty patients with stroke were recruited from a hospital in Cheongju, Korea.
[Subjects] Ten of the subjects were assigned to an experimental group that participated in
the task-oriented training program, and the other 10 were assigned to a control group that
received traditional rehabilitation therapy. [Methods] In the two groups, balance was
measured with the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), ADL performance with the Modified Barthel
Index (MBI), and self-efficacy with the Self-Efficacy Scale (SES), before and after 4
weeks of training. [Results] Comparative analysis of the experimental group’s pretest and
post-test results showed statistically significant differences in the BBS, MBI, and SES
scores. There were also significant between-group differences in the BBS, MBI, and SES
scores. [Conclusion] The results suggest that a task-oriented training program can be an
effective intervention to improve balance ability, ADL performance, and self-efficacy in
stroke patients.
Purpose : The purpose of this study was to identify whether virtual reality-based exercise could improve on balance, gait and fall efficacy in patients with Parkinson's disease.
Purpose : The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the effects of task-oriented training program on balance, activities of daily living(ADL) performance, and self-efficacy in stroke patients.Method : Two subjects with stroke in experimental group participated in the task-oriented training program, while two subjects with stroke in control group received traditional rehabilitation therapy for 4 weeks, 30 minutes per session, four times per week. The task-oriented training program consisted of four tasks with 4 difficulty levels. In two groups, balance was examined with using the Berg Balance Scale(BBS), ADL performance was examined with using the Modified Barthel Index(MBI), and Self Efficacy was evaluated with using the Self-Efficacy scale(SES) before and after 4-week training.Result : After 4 weeks training, all scores of measurement variables increased in both the experimental group and the control group, but the average rates of change differed between the two groups. After the training program, the scores of BBS, MBI, and SES in experimental group increased to 11.4%, 9.9%, 15.4%, respectively than pre-training.Conclusion : According to the results of this study, task-oriented training program might be proposed as a intervention to improve balance ability, ADL performance, and self-efficacy in stroke patients.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine if virtual reality-based exercise was effective in balance, gait, and falls efficacy in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS: Thirty patients with PD were assigned randomly to the experimental (n=15) or control groups (n=15). The experimental group performed virtual realitybased exercise and the control group underwent conventional physical therapy for 30minutes, five times per week for four weeks. A force platform system, the Korean version of the Berg Balance Scale (K-BBS), the six-minute walking test (6MWT), and the Korean Version of the Falls Efficacy Scale
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