OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of use of external hip protectors on subjects' fear of falling and falls self-efficacy (belief in their own ability to avoid falling). DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Aged-care health services in Sydney, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 131 women aged 75 years or older, who had two or more falls or one fall requiring hospital admission in the previo...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of exercising program utilizing proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation integration pattern (PIP), which is effective in improvement of the physical function, on the fall efficacy and gait ability of the elders who experienced injuries from falls. Also, this study aims to investigate he applicability of exercise program as methods for fal...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of Pilates exercise on Fear of Falling (FOF) among elderly women. Methods: The present study is a clinical trial that was conducted on 44 elderly women aged between 60-80 years. Subjects were recruited through the convenience sampling method and were then randomly divided into two groups of inference viz. Pilates exercise group, the...

BACKGROUND/AIM The aim of this research was to determine the effects of physical activity level (PAL) and physical fitness on falling parameters in community-dwelling elderly people. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-six elderly people were grouped as low PAL group (group 1, n: 38) and high PAL (group 2, n: 38) according to their PAL scores. PAL was measured by the Physical Activity Scale for the...

This tutorial is intended to graduate students, specialized in microelectronics formation. Before this work, the concerned students have spent one week in the cleanroom. In this training, with the help of teachers of the common microelectronics center, they processed and characterized a specific thin film transistor technology. The main goal was to set-up a bench that allows measuring dynamic p...