NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGEING DOCTOR HAKIM, WITH A FOCUS ON REHABILITATION AND PHYSIOTHERAPY | Year:2016 | دوره:1 |Papers Count:5

BACKGROUND: BRAIN FUNCTION VARIES NORMALLY AS PEOPLE PASS FROM CHILDHOOD THROUGH ADULTHOOD TO OLD AGE. DURING CHILDHOOD, THE ABILITY TO THINK AND REASON STEADILY INCREASES, ENABLING A CHILD TO LEARN INCREASINGLY COMPLEX SKILLS. DURING MOST OF ADULTHOOD, BRAIN FUNCTION IS RELATIVELY STABLE. AFTER A CERTAIN AGE, WHICH VARIES FROM PERSON TO PERSON, BRAIN FUNCTION DECLINES. THERE IS CLEAR EVIDENCE THAT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (PA), IF PERFORMED SAFELY, CAN CONTRIBUTE TO HEALTHY AGING AND REDUCE MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY. EVEN WHEN PERFORMED IN OLD AGE IT HAS MULTIPLE HEALTH BENEFITS. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO EVALUATED EFFECT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON AGING OF BRAIN...

INTRODUCTION OSTEOPOROSIS IS A DEBILITATING, WIDESPREAD DISEASE, WHICH AFFECTS APPROXIMATELY 55% OF THE POPULATION ABOVE 50 YEARS OLD IN THE USA. ACCORDING TO THE INTERNATIONAL OSTEOPOROSIS FOUNDATION (IOF), 40% OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD HAVE FRACTURE DUE TO OSTEOPOROSIS DURING THEIR LIFETIME. FALLS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 90% OF THE HIP FRACTURE AND ARE THE SIXTH LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG PATIENTS AGED 65 YEARS AND OLDER. IN ADDITION TO THE HIGH MORTALITY, THERE ARE OTHER DELETERIOUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE FALLS INCLUDING RESTRICTION OF MOBILITY, DISABILITY, SOCIAL ISOLATION, INSECURITY AND FEAR, INDUCING A CASCADE OF EVENTS THAT ARE HARMFUL TO HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE ELDERLY. IN A STUDY SHOWED THAT EXERCISE INTERVENTIONS REDUCE RISK AND RATE OF FALLS AND PROGRAMS TARGETING MAINLY BALANCE TRAINING HAVE BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO BE EFFECTIVE TO PREVENT FALLS IN THE ELDERLY...

INTRODUCTION: OLD AGES ARE A VULNERABLE ROAD USER GROUP WITH HIGH MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY IN ROAD CRASH. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO SHOW PATTERN OF ROAD TRAFFIC INJURIES IN THIS SPECIAL AGING GROUP.METHODS AND MATERIALS: IN A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY, PRE-HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SYSTEM REPORTS, HOSPITAL AND POLICE RECORDS OF ALL MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISIONS INJURED ABOVE 60 YEARS OLD WHO WERE ADMITTED TO POUR-SINA HOSPITAL FROM APRIL 2011TO MARCH 2012 WERE STUDIED. DEMOGRAPHIC DATA, CHARACTERISTIC OF ROAD TRAFFIC INCIDENTS AND IN-HOSPITAL MEDICAL PROFILES WERE DERIVED. DATA WAS ANALYZED WITH SPSS VER.18. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DEMOGRAPHIC AND INJURIES SITUATION WERE CALCULATED BY CHI SQUARE TEST. A P-VALUE OF<0.05 WAS CONSIDERED STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT...

AGEING IS A GENERAL PHENOMENON IN ALL LIVING ORGANISMS. HUMAN BEINGS AND ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF OTHER SPECIES, ESPECIALLY ANIMALS, NECESSARILY EXPERIENCE AGEING AND MORTALITY. AGEING HAS DIFFERENT ASPECTS AND COULD BE CONSIDERED FROM DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW. FROM PHYLOGENETICAL POINT OF VIEW THE LIFE SPAN OF HUMAN BEINGS HAS BEEN INCREASED SINCE THE APPEARANCE OF PRIMATES...

INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND: FEAR-AVOIDANCE BELIEFS (FABS), PAIN AND DISABILITY HAVE GREAT IMPORTANCE DURING LOW BACK ASSESSMENT AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO MEASURES OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) FOR DISC HERNIATED OLD PATIENTS REQUIRED MORE WORK.