Background: Fear of falling in elderly is a major cause of loss of independence, which has an effect on the physical function in elderly individuals. Loss of balance is another important public health problem for older adults, because old age life might have devastating consequences, such as an increase in mortality. Fear of fall, dynamic balance and proprioception of older adults has become an important issue, because of demographic changes resulting from the ageing of the population.
Objective-To compare the effects of conventional therapy and Pilates with conventional therapy on dynamic balance, proprioception and fear of falling in elderly individual.
Methods: The sample consisted of 62 elderly people of age between 65 years to 75 years. The group A subjects were asked to perform OTAGO exercise programme as a conventional training and group B performed Pilates exercises along with the OTAGO exercise programme. Dynamic balance and proprioception was assessed using the sensamove balance board, fear of falling was measured using falls efficacy scale (FES).
Results: The data was analysed by SPSS VERSION 16. Pre and post intervention within group was done using paired t test which shows highly significant difference in both groups in all the outcome scores. Comparison between groups was done using independent t test which showed significant differences in both groups for all variables.
Conclusions: The results of this study shows that both Pilates as well as Conventional training program leads to significant improvement in fear of fall, dynamic balance and proprioception in elderly individuals. However Pilates intervention was found to have greater benefits compared to the conventional balance intervention for all variables.
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