Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews · Oct 31, 2019

Improving Trip- and Slip-Resisting Skills in Older People: Perturbation Dose Matters

By Karamanidis K, Epro G, McCrum C et al.

Aging negatively affects balance recovery responses after trips and slips. We hypothesize that older people can benefit from brief treadmill-based trip and slip perturbation exposure despite reduced muscular capacities, but with neuropathology, their responsiveness to these perturbations will be decreased. Thus, to facilitate long-term benefits and their generalizability to everyday life, one needs to consider the individual threshold for perturbation dose.

doi.org/10.1249/jes.0000000000000210Open accessPubMed 31663865Interventions