Outcome Of Functional Task Program With Gait Exercises On Activities Of Daily Living, Balance And Quality Of Life Among Gereatric Population: Randomized Control Trial.
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Objective: Outcome Of Functional Task Exercises with Gait Exercises on Activities of Daily Living, Balance and Quality of Life Among Gereatric Population.
Design: A randomized trial study.
Set up: Geriatric health services facility in Bhopal Madhya Pradesh.
Results: 30 elderly subjects were allocated into two groups. Group A (experimental group) which were given functional task exercises, gait exercises along with conventional exercises which is compared to Group B (control group) which were given conventional exercises only. Functional activity measured by FIM Scale before and after the intervention in both the Groups were improved, but more in Group A (FTE)(94.92) compared to Group B (conventional exercises)(92.21). Group A showed mean of (92.533) before and (94.928) after the intervention. Group B showed the mean of (94.642) before and (92.214) after the intervention. Balance measured by POMA before and after the intervention in both the Groups were improved, but more in Group A (FTE) (22.933) compared to Group B (conventional exercises) (21.133). Balance which is measured by POMA scale is improved in both the Groups A and B but more in Group A (FTE). 4Before intervention the mean of Group A was (19.200) and after was (22.933). Group B had a mean of (19.000) before and (21.333) after intervention. Quality of Life is measured by OPQOL Brief 13 Scale before and after the intervention in both the Groups were improved, but more in Group A (FTE)(41.466) compared to Group B (39.63)(conventional exercises). Quality of life was improved more in Group A as compared to Group B with which is extremely significant as the level was set as p<0.05. Group A showed mean of (38.333) before and (41.466) after the intervention and Group B showed mean of (37.8) before and (39.63) after the intervention.
Conclusions: The study concludes that functional task exercise Program along with gait and conventional exercises showed more improvement in elderly than conventional exercises.
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