Objective: to associate functional capacity with the risk of falls, fear falling, and pain in hospitalized elderly. Methods: cross-sectional study 130 elderlies. The following scales were applied: Activities Daily Living, Instrumental Morse Falls, Fear Falling Pain. Kruskal-Wallis test was used categorical variables Living Pain Scales Chi-square Falls. Spearman’s Correlation Coefficient continu...

The EU project Welfare Quality® proposes an overall assessment system for animal welfare based on animal outcomes. The objective of this study was to test inter-observer reliability (IOR) when assessing lameness, fear and slipping and falling scores as parameters for monitoring the welfare of killing pigs during arrival at the slaughterhouse. Two Belgian and two Spanish slaughterhouses were vis...

The objective of this study is to determine the incidence of falls and fear of falling by gender and age in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Among the Japanese patients who participated in a single-institute-based prospective observational cohort study of patients with RA, namely the Institute of Rheumatology Rheumatoid Arthritis, 765 men (median age 63 years) and 4,231 women (...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors associated with future falls and/or near falls in people with mild PD. METHODS The study included 141 participants with PD. Mean (SD) age and PD-duration were 68 (9.7) and 4 years (3.9), respectively. Their median (q1-q3) UPDRS III score was 13 (8-18). Those >80 years of age, requiring support in standing or unable to understand instructions were excluded. Self-...

OBJECTIVE Tai Chi (TC) is an exercise training that is becoming increasingly popular as an intervention for single fall prevention. This meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the efficacy of TC on fall rate, fear of falling and balance in older people. METHODS Randomized controlled trials published between 1988 and January 2009 were included. In the Netherlands (2009) we used random effects...

OBJECTIVE to determine whether restoration of sensation, impaired due to diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), would reduce the number of falls and the fear of falling and improve activities of daily living (ADL) in a Medicare-aged population. DESIGN retrospective cohort study of patients with documented, monochromatic near-infrared phototherapy (MIRE)-mediated, symptomatic reversal of DPN. ...

Objective: to determine whether restoration of sensation, impaired due to diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), would reduce the number of falls and the fear of falling and improve activities of daily living (ADL) in a Medicare-aged population. Design: retrospective cohort study of patients with documented, monochromatic near-infrared phototherapy (MIRETM)mediated, symptomatic reversal of DPN. ...