EFFECTS OF THE WALK ON! PROGRAM ON PHYSICAL FUNCTION IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS
Judy Foxworth, Allison Heinrich, Kynleigh Holley, Caleb Bauguess, Amanda Deputy, Lindsay Ludwig, Jo Ann Coco-Ripp, Barb Nicklas · 2023
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Foxworth and co-authors test a church-based walking program for older women living in the community. The program, Walk On, ran for eleven weeks at a local church: laps around a large room, balance challenges, and leg-strength exercises, twice a week. The report covers fourteen African American women, average age about 76, who finished the program and both test rounds.
Two gains stood out. The timed up-and-go test, a stand-walk-turn measure of mobility, improved clearly, and pain scores dropped. Other measures, gait speed, six-minute distance, sit-to-stand time, and one-leg balance, did not shift significantly in this small group. The authors call the mobility and pain gains encouraging and ask for bigger studies to test wider benefit.
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| CREATOR | Judy Foxworth, Allison Heinrich, Kynleigh Holley, Caleb Bauguess, Amanda Deputy, Lindsay Ludwig, Jo Ann Coco-Ripp, Barb Nicklas |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |