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Title: | Assessment of the musculoskeletal performance with squat tests and performance-oriented measurements in older adults | Authors: | Uysal, I. Çetişli Korkmaz, Nilüfer Cavlak, U. |
Keywords: | decline squat foot print analysis Half squat older adults Tinetti Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA) aged article clinical article controlled study female foot human human experiment male Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment step length stride length walking speed body equilibrium body position clinical trial exercise test falling fitness gait geriatric assessment muscle strength physiology procedures prospective study spatial orientation very elderly walking Accidental Falls Aged Aged, 80 and over Exercise Test Female Gait Gait Analysis Geriatric Assessment Humans Male Muscle Strength Orientation, Spatial Physical Fitness Postural Balance Posture Prospective Studies Walking |
Publisher: | IOS Press BV | Abstract: | BACKGROUND: Balance and mobility impairments, declined musculoskeletal strength and performance, limited range of motion, and poor flexibility are fairly common among older adults. OBJECTIVES: To determine the lower extremity muscle force and to verify the correlation with the gait characteristics and balance in community dwelling older adults. METHODS: Seventy-five adults with a mean age of 75.07 ± 6.28 years were included in the study. All participants were evaluated with the following tests: half squat (HS), decline squat (DS), foot print analysis (step length, step wide, stride length, walking velocity and cadence) and Tinetti Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA). RESULTS: HS and DS test scores were significantly correlated with Tinetti Balance and Gait Assessment scores and gait characteristics, except step wide (p< 0.01). The results of this study showed that the participants who have higher scores in the squat tests, showed higher scores in terms of POMA (p< 0.01). CONCLUSION: Appropriate and direct assessment of lower limb power and performance in balance and gait tests should be done to identify functioning of the older adults. Half and eccentric decline squat tests used in this study were useful, cheap and easy. The squat tests can be used to determine the relationship between balance and gait characteristics, in addition to predicting the musculoskeletal performance in older adults. © 2020 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/11499/37496 https://doi.org/10.3233/BMR-181283 |
ISSN: | 1053-8127 |
Appears in Collections: | Fizik Tedavi ve Rehabilitasyon Yüksekokulu Koleksiyonu PubMed İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / PubMed Indexed Publications Collection Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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