Background Approximately 30% of people over 65 years of age living in the community fall
each year. This is an update of a Cochrane review first published in 2009. Objectives To …

OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of exercise on falls prevention in older people and
establish whether particular trial characteristics or components of exercise programs are …

Objective Previous meta-analyses have found that exercise prevents falls in older people.
This study aimed to test whether this effect is still present when new trials are added, and it …

Abstract Background and Purpose. Assessment of the quality of randomized controlled trials
(RCTs) is common practice in systematic reviews. However, the reliability of data obtained …

The physiology of nervous reactions can be studied from three main points of view. In the
first place, nerve-cells, like all other cells. lead individual lives,—they breathe, they …

Measurement of the outflow from one of the cerebral veins' is, in many respects, a
considerable improvement on the modeby simple inspection. It is not, however, an easy …

Background falls and fall-related injuries are common in older adults, have negative effects
on functional independence and quality of life and are associated with increased morbidity …

I. The flexion-reflex of hind-limb: intensity of stimulus: excitation and inhibition: receptive-
field: the type-reflex: muscles reflexly ex-cited, muscles reflexly inbibited: mechanical effects …

Evidence-based practice involves the use of evidence from systematic reviews and
randomised controlled trials, but the extent of this evidence in physiotherapy has not …

HIS edition has given opportunity for a certain amount of revision as regards detail. The
book stresses the view that man is a product, like so much else, of the play of natural forces …