Sunday, June 21, 2009
A recent study showed that Tai Chi may reduce pain and improve disability in patients with arthritis but the poor methodological quality of the reviewed studies precluded decisions on effects for other types of musculoskeletal pain.
The following study was on a larger scale on older patients performing Tai Chi who seemed to [...]
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Falls during walking are a major cause of injury and death in the elderly. From a falls perspective, a critical gait event is minimum toe clearance (MTC), as failure to achieve foot-ground clearance results in a trip and potentially a fall.
Minimum toe clearance exhibits stride-to-stride variability, which must be minimized to [...]
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This post was written by etoims on June 17, 2009
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