Balance performance, aging and falling: A comparative study based on a Turkish sample

Relationship between lower-limb muscle strength and functional independence among elderly people according to frailty criteria: a cross-sectional study

“…31 Regarding frailty characteristics, a community-based study in the same city showed that females, higher age groups and lower income groups correlated with greater frailty, with more fatigue, less muscle strength and slower gait. 32 Previous studies [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40] that used the FTSST to measure LLMS among elderly individuals showed higher performance than was observed in the present study, in which the mean time taken in the FTSST was 21.7 seconds. It might be possible to explain this discrepancy in terms of the profile of elderly individuals attended at the outpatient clinic studied, which followed certain inclusion criteria, such as advanced age and functional deficit.…”

“…Aslan et al 39 on 115 elderly outpatients who were able to walk without help and did not present any neurological disease or visual and/or auditory problems showed that the mean time taken to perform the FTSST was 14.4 ± 6.88 seconds. In a study on 44 elderly individuals of mean age 83.13 ± 3.3 years who were able to walk with or without a device to help them and who presented clinical stability, Ferreira et al 38 found that the mean time taken to perform the FTSST was 12.72 ± 6.94 seconds.…”

Impaired Ability to Perform the Sit-to-Stand Task in Osteoporotic Women

“…There was no difference between groups when compared the time spent during the sit-tostand movements (P > 0.05), probably due to the higher trunk flexion performed by groups with osteoporosis and osteopenia, which compensate the lower limb muscles deficit and, consequently, allowed them to achieve the same time during the test. However, in some studies in which the sit-to-stand test was applied to elderly individuals, the results regarding the time spent for performing the tasks are close to those obtained in the present study (Whitney et al, 2005;Aslan et al, 2008;Schaubert & Bohannon, 2005), which suggests that the decrease of the movement velocity is associated to many factors of aging process and not to the bone mineral density (BMD) directly. The spent time to perform the five-chair sit-to-stand test in women aged 65 years or older with osteopenia (Chyu et al, 2010;Alp et al, 2007) was similar to the present study.…”

“…The sit-to-stand (STS) test is easy to apply and it is one of the most used methods to assess the functional muscle strength as well as the balance and the functional mobility of elderly people (Bohannon, 2006;Buatois et al, 2006), thus allowing identification of those individuals with impaired balance (Whitney et al, 2005). In a study carried out by Aslan et al, 2008, who applied the sit-to-stand test to young and older adults, the results showed that elderly individuals spent more time to perform the tasks compared to the young ones. Zech et al, 2011 also shown that the sit-to-stand power test can be efficient to distingue between nonfrail elderly and prefrail.…”

The impact of unsupervised regular walking on health: a sample of Turkish middle-aged and older adults

“…Sedentary lifestyle increase the risk factors for HT, DM, obesity, cancer, musculoskeletal diseases, and many other diseases [6,7,9,31,39,40]. The relationship between physical activity level and the decrease in the risk factors of these diseases has been reported in the literature [41][42][43][44]. Small but meaningful improvement in QoL can be brought about by exercise interventions over 3-6 months in well populations.…”