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Faculty Deep-dive webinar: Using PhysioU to enhance your Early Clinical Foundation courses

Join PhysioU's Dr. Michael Wong, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT takes faculty into a deep dive on how to use the PhysioU apps to enhance the fundamental clinical skills curriculum

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Balance in Elderly

Welcome to PhysioU’s Mentoring Minutes! Each episode of Mentoring Minutes directly applies a clinical approach with relevant research for effective results.

Notes: 

  • Muscle power (force x velocity) declines earlier & faster with age than strength or endurance.

    • Elderly fallers in community & nursing homes show less power in lower limbs than non-fallers.

  • 10-weeks of power training improves balance in healthy elderly adults.

  • High speed resistance training improves functional performance and quality of life in healthy elderly females.

  • Low load power training (20% 1RM) demonstrates greatest improvement in balance when compared to higher loads. 

    • Power improves to the same degree across load ranges.

  • Power training shows low amount of adverse events in healthy elderly adults (it’s safe)

  • Cluster sets demonstrate better outcomes for functional performance measures than traditional sets.

    • Cluster set: 30 sec rest after 2 consecutive reps (total of 8 reps per set). 

    • Traditional set: 150 sec rest after 8 consecutive reps. 

References:

Orr, R., De Vos, N. J., Singh, N. A., Ross, D. A., Stavrinos, T. M., & Fiatarone-Singh, M. A. (2006). Power training improves balance in healthy older adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 61(1), 78-85.

Ramirez-Campillo, R., Alvarez, C., Garcìa-Hermoso, A., Celis-Morales, C., Ramirez-Velez, R., Gentil, P., & Izquierdo, M. (2018). High-speed resistance training in elderly women: effects of cluster training sets on functional performance and quality of life. Experimental gerontology, 110, 216-222.

Faculty webinar: Using PhysioU for deep learning in Physical Therapy Education

Join Dr. Michael Wong, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT in an interactive discussion about PhysioU apps for deep learning and how the apps are being used in the classroom.

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