Senior citizens benefit from movement therapy

Category Primary study
JournalJournal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies
Year 2002
Sixteen senior citizens participated in four, 50-min movement therapy sessions over a 2-week period and were compared to 16 senior citizens who belonged to a wait list control group who received the movement sessions only after the end of the study. The movement therapy participants improved in their functional motion on the Tinetti scale, and specifically on the gait scale, their leg strength increased, and their leg pain significantly decreased.
Epistemonikos ID: a8184268a27b66a04c32e3413f64700b9d90f62a
First added on: Nov 16, 2014