Prevention of Functional Decline of Aged Women (Incapacity)

Academia Cearense de Odontologia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation

Treatments: Behavioral: Physiotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00727389

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to evaluate the capacity of muscular function and articular amplitude in the aged women who participated in the Support Group and its influence on the prevention of function decline of these women.

Full description

To evaluate the capacity of muscular function and articular amplitude in the aged women who participated the Support Group and its influence on the prevention of function decline of these women is use the method: It is an interventional and quantitative research. A questionnaire of identification and instruments will use: a) flexion and extension tests of muscular function and articular amplitude of shoulders, elbows, wrists, hip, knees and ankles, in the beginning and in the end of the program b) educational action c) physical exercise d) the check up of the results after the exercises e) two questions to register the influence of the support group in the functional life of the researched ones.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• woman with 60 years old or more

Exclusion criteria

• woman with less 60 years old

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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31 participants in 1 patient group

groups of women

Other group

Description:

To evaluate the capacity of muscular function and articular amplitude in the aged women

Treatment:

Behavioral: Physiotherapy