Dual tasking interferes with dynamic balance in young and old healthy adults.
BACKGROUND: Functional mobility requires an ability to adapt to environmental factors together with an ability to execute a secondary task simultaneously while walking. A complex dual-tasking gait test may provide an indication of functional ability and falls risk among community-dwelling older adul...
| Publicado en: | Physiotherapy Practice & Research Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 155 - 163 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=151834539&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 151834539 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 22130683 FTHV jtl: Physiotherapy Practice & Research issn: 22130683 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2020 vid: 41 iid: 2 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 151834539 151834539 151834539 10.3233/PPR-190394 151834539 ppf: 155 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Dual tasking interferes with dynamic balance in young and old healthy adults. aug: au: Sulaiman, Amal Al-Shaikh Kelly, Marie O'Connor, Mairead Bamiou, Doris-Eva Pavlou, Marousa affil: Department of Otorhinolaryngology –Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, KFUH, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia sug: subj: Task Performance and Analysis Balance, Postural Executive Function Evaluation Human Cross Sectional Studies Descriptive Statistics Convenience Sample Adolescence Adult Middle Age Aged Aged, 80 and Over Clinical Assessment Tools Data Analysis Software Nonparametric Statistics T-Tests Mann-Whitney U Test Chi Square Test Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient Comparative Studies Funding Source Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over ab: BACKGROUND: Functional mobility requires an ability to adapt to environmental factors together with an ability to execute a secondary task simultaneously while walking. A complex dual-tasking gait test may provide an indication of functional ability and falls risk among community-dwelling older adults. PURPOSE: The aim of this cross-sectional study is to investigate age-related differences in dual-tasking ability and to evaluate whether dual-tasking ability is related to executive function. METHODS: Forty-one community-dwelling healthy older and forty-one younger adults completed a dual-tasking assessment in which concurrent tasks were incorporated into the Functional Gait Assessment (FGA). The manual dual-task involved carrying a glass of water (FGA-M) while the cognitive dual-tasks involved numeracy (FGA-N) and literacy (FGA-L) related tasks. FGA scores under single (FGA-S) and dual-task conditions together with associated dual-task costs and response accuracy were determined. Executive function was assessed using The Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS). RESULTS: FGA-N and FGA-L scores were adversely affected in both groups compared to FGA-S (p≤0.001). However, score reductions and dual-task costs were significantly greater for older adults compared to younger adults on FGA-N (p≤0.05) and FGA-L (p≤0.001), with older adult performance on FGA-N associated with falls risk (p≤0.05). Executive function did not appear to be related to dual-tasking ability. CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that cognitively demanding tasks while walking, have a deleterious effect on dynamic balance and could place older adults at a greater risk of falls. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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